Thu. January 08, 2009
Iraq:
CBS News
January 8, 2009
Under the newly approved US-
Iraq security pact, all
US troops must pull out of
Iraqi cities by the end of June and leave the country entirely by the end of ...
Iraqi provincial elections will be held on Jan. 31 2009. (AP Photo/Ahmed Alhussainey) A daily diary with scenes of the latest attacks and snapshots from the ...
Both Sunni and Shiite parties face major challenges to their claim of leadership of their two religious communities. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's party ...
"Iraq and the US are reaping some of the consequences of past reports that exaggerated the progress in developing the Iraqi security forces," former ...
New York Times
January 8, 2009
General Petraeus, in his 2008 farewell letter to the troops: "The year ahead will contain significant challenges, among them: provincial district and ...
David H. Petraeus, the overall commander of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, likes to repeat that "I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist, ...
And: "Despite the conventional wisdom that the war is nearly over, Obama's war in Iraq may last longer than Bush's, which clocks in at a robust 5 years and ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
January 7, 2009
Reuters UK
January 7, 2009
Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, the aging
Kurdish leader who worked with Saddam against Kurdish rivals and came to lead
Iraq after Saddam's ouster, ...
But many Iraqis will have a different take on history. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have died - at least 90000 by one conservative estimate - in the ...
New York Times
January 7, 2009
the United States has agreed to pull its combat troops, now numbering about 145000, from cities by June 30, and to withdraw entirely from
Iraq by the end of ...
Further complicating the vote are the estimated 5.1 million Iraqis who remain displaced, according to the International Organization for Migration. ...
A blog looking at daily life inside Iraq, produced by The Times's Baghdad bureau. "If you think I'ma good man, campaign for me," Mr. Kareem told an elderly ...
USA Today
January 7, 2009
By Andrea Stone,
USA TODAY
Tikrit,
Iraq - More than three weeks before
Iraqis will go to the polls to elect their version of state legislatures, ...
The goal is to include Sunni Arabs, former Insurgents and other outsiders who haven't participated in past elections. The election also will be a referendum ...
By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY TIKRIT, Iraq - More than three weeks before Iraqis will go to the polls to elect their version of state legislatures, ...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 7, 2009
Yet, despite much improvement of
Iraqi security forces, it is unclear how quickly they can handle full security responsibility. In private,
Iraqi officials ...
Too many Americans and far too many Iraqis have died for us to pull out with undue haste and watch Iraq slide backward. Yes, the nature of our involvement ...
Iraqi officials want to shrink the American "footprint" quickly -- by pulling US troops out of cities and making them less intrusive into Iraqi lives. ...
Given all you have on your plate, the temptation will be to consider the Iraq war over. the US public is tired of Iraq. Media coverage of the story is ...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 8, 2009
"We went into Iraq under the guise of helping the Iraqi people," Knotts said. "The reality of the situation is certainly debatable, but the important thing ...
Reuters
January 8, 2009
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC News is reducing its full-time presence in Iraq, and will rely more on the BBC for day-to-day reports ...
New York Times
January 8, 2009
The decision, made public on Tuesday, for now ends the hope of
Iraq and
Afghanistan veterans who have the condition and believed that the Purple Hearts ...
USA Today
January 8, 2009
New York Times
January 8, 2009
... malign external influences; and a national referendum on
the US-
Iraq Strategic Agreement."
Ayad Allawi, the former
Iraqi prime minister, ...
Los Angeles Times
January 8, 2009
Voice of America
January 8, 2009
Insurgents have frequently targeted
Iraqi security forces in a bid to disrupt recent security gains in
Iraq that have led to a sharp decline in violence. ...
New York Times
January 8, 2009
The decision, made public on Tuesday, for now ends the hope of
Iraq and
Afghanistan veterans who have the condition and believed that the Purple Hearts ...
New York Times
January 8, 2009
By JOHN SCHWARTZ An
Iraqi-born resident of
the United States who was ordered to cover a T-shirt with Arabic script before boarding a plane in New York has ...
Christian Science Monitor
January 8, 2009
The mix of
the US and
Iraqi military
troop surge, many
Sunnis turning against
al Qaeda in
Iraq (AQI) to work with American forces, and a cease-fire among ...
Xinhua
January 8, 2009
Los Angeles Times
January 8, 2009
About 7000 letters sent to families of
soldiers killed in
Iraq and
Afghanistan had the salutation 'Dear John Doe.' By Julian E. Barnes Reporting from ...
Los Angeles Times
January 8, 2009
Los Angeles Times
January 7, 2009
Matea Gold on Show Tracker reports that ABC News is scaling back its presence in Iraq and will rely on BBC News for daily coverage of developments there. ...
Reuters
January 7, 2009
GENEVA, Jan 7 (Reuters) -
Iraq remained the deadliest country for media
workers in 2008, followed by
India and
Mexico, although the number of deaths was ...
MSNBC
January 7, 2009
The assignments for the unit's 187 members in
Iraq included training
Iraqi police. The Guard says 16 of the
soldiers have decided to extend their duty up to ...
International Herald Tribune
January 7, 2009
Shiite religious festivals and shrines in
Iraq have been the target of some of the bloodiest attacks of the war. On Sunday, a suicide bomber killed 40 ...
Voice of America
January 7, 2009
... US from an occupying power to an ally of a sovereign
Iraq. On New Year's Day,
US forces handed over responsibility to
Iraqi troops for the
Green Zone, ...
Reuters
January 7, 2009
GENEVA (Reuters) -
Iraq remained the deadliest country for media
workers in 2008, followed by
India and
Mexico, although the number of deaths was down ...
MSNBC
January 7, 2009
Mr. Lamani served as Special Representative of the
Arab League in
Iraq in 2006 and has recently undertaken in-depth field research in
Iraqi-
Kurdistan, ...
MSNBC
January 7, 2009
By Vince Lattanzio A
Delaware County man serving in
Iraq was killed on New Year's Eve, according to the Department of Defense Monday. ...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 7, 2009
A sharp shift in US strategy, along with a decision by
Iraqi Sunnis to turn against
al-Qaida, has led to an amazing downturn in
Iraq violence. ...
New York Times
January 7, 2009
In a new status-of-forces agreement between the countries,
Iraq demanded and won an end to immunity from
Iraqi law for security
contractors like
Blackwater. ...
Reuters
January 7, 2009
Hundreds of bloodied men and boys marched on Wednesday to a shrine in north
Baghdad, one of several ceremonies at Shi'ite sites across
Iraq to mark the ...
MSNBC
January 7, 2009
In all, 94 reservists were soaked by the freezing rain that fell before dawn as they boarded their transport plane headed for
Balad Air Base in
Iraq. ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
January 7, 2009
He added that the
Iraqi economy was being rebuilt. Corzine traveled with Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire and
Texas Gov. Rick Perry in a trip sponsored ...
Seattle Times
January 7, 2009
She secretly flew to
Iraq to visit troops from the Washington
army National Guard's 81st Brigade, her office announced Tuesday morning, capping a day of ...
Bloomberg
January 7, 2009
6 (Bloomberg) --
the Pentagon needs at least $69.7 billion more to cover war costs in
Iraq through the end of this fiscal year, according to Defense ...
KXMC
January 6, 2009
About 120
soldiers in the 639th Combat Sustainment Supply Company will spend the next five weeks at Fort Lewis, before heading to
Iraq for a yearlong tour. ...
Kansas City Star
January 6, 2009
A Fort Riley soldier has died of wounds suffered when
Insurgents attacked his unit in
Iraq. The
army says 22-year-old Pvt. Benjamin Tollefson of Concord, ...
Xinhua
January 6, 2009
"We celebrate a safer environment for our Iraqi colleagues after five long years of great danger and terrible casualties. But Iraq remains the deadliest ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
January 6, 2009
Houston Chronicle
January 6, 2009
Perry told of briefings with
Iraqi and American
officials there. Corzine's office said they visited
US troops at
Camp Bucca, a prison camp maintained by the ...
Voice of America
January 6, 2009
On Monday, a US commander in
Iraq's heavily Shi'ite region south of
Baghdad said troops are on alert for female suicide bombers during
Ashura. ...
Xinhua
January 6, 2009
The attack occurred as
Iraqi security forces intensify security measures in the city where local authorities were celebrating the 88th anniversary of the ...
Boston Globe
January 6, 2009
The latter comment reflects his confidence that the failures of his Iraq policy will be lessened if and when a successful democracy emerges. ...
Newsday
January 6, 2009
Los Angeles Times
January 6, 2009
The previous accord governing private security
contractors in Iraq noted that they had immunity from
Iraqi criminal prosecution unless the nation that sent ...
New York Times
January 5, 2009
While tragic, stories about murder and other violence perpetrated by a small number of troops returning from Iraq deflect attention away from how combat ...
