US military officials are reporting that the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq took delivery of three planeloads of weapons from Bulgaria sometimes in September. The quantity of the arms caught US officials off guard, and has apparently irked the Iraqi central...
Echoing comments last week from State Department adviser David Satterfield, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said his government will not seek an extended UN Mandate if the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the US fails to pass parliament. Though both...
With boisterous debate and a looming vote in Iraq's parliament over the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the United States, few things could have made the situation any more tense. The United States has issued repeated threats of extreme consequences if the...
Thousands of Shi'ites took to the streets of Baghdad today in the latest public expressing of opposition to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Iraq, presently the subject of contentious (and occasionally violent) debate in Iraq's...
Persistent complaints by Iraq's Kurdish parties over Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's creation of "Support Councils," militias allied with him and operating under a similar basis to the Sunni Awakening Councils have led to an ever escalating feud with top officials in...
Citing unidentified military sources, the Washington Times is reporting today that the US forces in Iraq will begin, as soon as December 1, to apply for warrants from Iraqi courts before detaining suspects or searching homes. A key portion of the yet-to-be-ratified...
Constitutional law scholars yesterday warned a congressional subcommittee that the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Iraq potentially runs afoul of the constitutions of both nations, and has urged the Bush Administration to rather seek an...
While the United States seems determined as a matter of policy to see to its Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Iraq passed by the Iraqi Parliament, even to the point of making direct threats of severe consequences if they refuse, privately some high ranking...
The US Departments of State and Defense have informed companies that provide the over 160,000 contractors employed in Iraq that the new Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), once it goes into effect, will strip them of the broad legal immunity for crimes that they now...
The Iraqi Parliament's debate on the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) was expected to be contentious, but it would have been difficult to envision just how contentious things ended up today. Influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's parliamentary bloc had firmly...
