Iraqi Finance Minister Baqer Jabr Solagh says that the Iraqi Cabinet will vote on the controversial Status of Forces Agreement with the United States sometime this weekend. The current draft appears to be the final one, with only a month left to ratify the SOFA and...
This afternoon, a US military patrol stopped to inspect an Iraqi military checkpoint in a Sunni neighborhood in western Mosul. According to Iraqi personnel and witnesses, an argument broke out during which one of the American soldiers cursed Iraqi soldier Barzan...
The Associated Press has obtained a copy of the latest draft of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Iraq, complete with all the changes requested by Iraq and agreed upon by the United States. Though the AP did not submit the entire...
The official US response to Iraq's proposed amendments to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) was received on Thursday, condemned by top Iraqi clerics during Friday sermons, and will be discussed by the Iraqi cabinet on Sunday. In all that time, we've had only a...
Yesterday, the United States officially responded to the proposed amendments to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) submitted by the Iraqi government. The exact terms of the response were never made public, but officials have said the US accepted some amendments...
From its earliest stages the Obama campaign made a timetable for Iraq's pullout a top priority promise. With another 74 days until he even takes office and the current administration's rational for keeping the troops in place faltering fast, what he assured the voters...
The United States has officially responded to the Iraqi government's proposed amendments to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) today. The terms of the response have not yet been made public, but early reports indicate that, as suggested by White House spokesman...
Touting the decline in violence in Iraq, the United States has announced it will be cutting the level of troops in the nation this month by one combat brigade, or roughly 3,500 soldiers. They had initially planned to rotate one brigade out this month, but now they...
Updated 11/5 10:00 PM EST US Ambassador Ryan Crocker said today that the United States' general policy towards Iraq will not change after the election of Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. This seems to also be the...
Though no formal response has been made from the United States, nor is one expected until sometime after today's election, a well-placed Iraqi member of parliament, Sami al-Askari of the ruling United Iraqi Alliances, says that the government has received "positive...
