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...
Iraq's parliament voted with an over two-thirds majority in favor of amending the provincial election law passed last month to give a single guaranteed seat to each key minority group in the provinces of Basra, Nineveh, and Baghdad. A guaranteed representation was...
With an apparent eye on the ever growing possibility that the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Iraq will not be approved of by the end of the year, Iraq's Ministry of Defense reportedly says that they are ready to replace the...
With 150,000-plus US soldiers still in their country over five years after the invasion, the Iraqi public is watching the upcoming US presidential election with great interest. But much like the American public, they appear divided on whether Republican Party nominee...
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has released a statement saying that Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has been in talks with his Syrian counterpart over the past week in an attempt to defuse the growing tensions between the two countries since last Sunday's US raid. The...
An aide to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says that the Iraqi government expects a US reply on a myriad of submitted amendments to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) sometime after Tuesday's election. The most recent draft of the SOFA was initially reported...
Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud Barzani, visiting Washington DC as part of a delegation aiming to rescue the faltering Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Iraq, has dropped something of a bombshell as the Washington Times...
Massoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, said yesterday that he believes it is "doubtful" that the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Iraq will be approved by Iraq's cabinet and parliament by the end of...
