Release Of Shoe Thrower Muntadhar al-Zaidi Delayed

The release of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who shoveled both of his shoes at former US President George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference in December of last year, is delayed. Al-Zaidi was...

Influential Iraqi lawmaker killed by roadside bomb

A senior Iraqi lawmaker was killed by a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad, Thursday morning.  Saleh al-Ageili, three bodyguards, and two civilian bystanders were killed when a bomb went off near the government motorcade.  The incident is being called an assassination...

Woodward: US spies Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki

In his latest book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, seasoned journalist Robert Woodward revealed the US has been spying on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Such revelations...

Iraq raises controversial new flag

A fresh new flag, a fresh new start?Some say the new Iraqi flag is a way of creating symbolic distance from the crimes committed under Saddam Hussein, while others say it's part of the country's...

President Yudhoyono to meet Iraqi PM in New York

""In the New York meeting, President Yudhoyono and Al-Maliki will discuss inter alia the political situation and security in Iraq and the relations between the two countries," presidential spokesman Dino Patti...

Sunni bloc quits as 73 killed in bombings

The suicide bombers were clearly aiming for maximum civilian casualties and struck three locations in Baghdad. One of the attacks was on a gas station; the other, and ice cream parlour; and the third, I don't...

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