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This stems to a large degree on growing suspicions Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite with old ties to Iran, is moving to crush his political and sectarian opponents and establish a Shiite dictatorship in Iraq. If the demands for greater ...  

Iranian diplomats, who arrived Monday in Baghdad, met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hours before the talks were to open. Analyst Hassan Abedini, who is being briefed by Iran's delegation, said Tehran expects the U.S and other world powers to ...  

Baghdad (AFP) May 24, 2012 A mortar attack in Baghdad killed one person and wounded six others Thursday, in the second attack in Iraq's capital during key talks on Iran's nuclear programme, security and medical officials said. An interior ministry official said a mortar round struck a street in the Bataween area of central Baghdad, across the Tigris River from the heavily-fortified Green Zone where the talks between I  

This stems to a large degree on growing suspicions Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite with old ties to Iran, is moving to crush his political and sectarian opponents and establish a Shiite dictatorship in Iraq. If the demands for greater ...  

Iran claims it only seeks nuclear reactors for energy and research. Iranian negotiators, who met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hours before the talks were to open, would not identify any specific offers or benchmarks they wanted to ...  

Ali al-Moussawi, media adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said the Iraqi government said the deal must adhere to regulations that mean Baghdad gets a fifty percent cut of the profits. Also, oil must pass through government pipelines, a route the ...  

Baghdad, May 22, IRNA – Secretary of Iranian Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili in Baghdad on Tuesday held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on mutual, regional and international issues. Jalili hoped that Baghdad talks with ...  

Whenever there's a chance that freedom might break out in Iraq, that the people might be heard, Nouri's brown shirts take to downtown Baghdad.  Nouri's little cult followed orders and hit the streets of downtown Baghdad this morning.  Alsumaria reports that the thug's thugs were out in full force, carrying signs supproting Nouri and insisting that anyone not supproting Thug Nouri was influenced  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's central government is warning authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region that their oil deals with Turkey must have Baghdad's approval. Ali al-Moussawi, media adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, says the deals must ...  

"We have no problem with any deals, but they have to be according to the Iraqi constitution and laws that govern relations between Baghdad and the Kurdish region," said Ali al-Moussawi, media adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The Iraqi ...  

Ali al-Moussawi, media adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, says the deals must abide by the constitution and laws that govern relations between Baghdad and the Kurdish north. Al-Moussawi's statement Monday came a day after Iraqi Kurds announced a ...  

Baghdad (AFP) May 25, 2012 Iran and world powers cannot afford to come away from their next round of nuclear talks in Moscow in June without concrete progress, as they did in Baghdad, analysts said on Friday. "We are starting to reach a point in which it is going to be more difficult to keep this process alive without having some tangible results on the substantive issues," said Trita Parsi, author of a recent book ab  

Efforts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad to halt Iran's nuclear programme have stalled after Tehran rejected an offer from the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China - which was branded 'a joke' by analysts. Representatives of the world powers hold talks with Iranian nuclear negotiators in Baghdad, Iraq (Picture: EPA) The Western powers - the United Nations Security Council plus Germany - wanted Iran to stop production of 20 per...  

Baghdad attacks Turkey oil pipeline planBy Daniel Dombey in IstanbulBaghdad has hit back at plans for a big oil pipeline with Turkey, in the latest sign of tension between the neighbours and deepening strains in Iraq itself.The move comes after demonstrators burned Turkish flags outside the consulate in the southern city of Basra over the weekend, and after Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, described Turkey as a hostile state.More:Baghdad...  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran and world powers agreed to meet again next month to try to ease the long standoff over its nuclear work despite achieving scant progress at talks in Baghdad towards resolving the main sticking points of their dispute.Related StoriesCameron defends role in Murdoch takeover dealLebanese Shi'ite hostages freed, en route to BeirutEU files WTO suit over Argentina's import restrictionsSpain region, Greek exit warnings rattle...  

Hashemi had repeatedly warned of a kangaroo court and wanted the trial moved to a neutral territory outside of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s influence. He also accused the government of coerced confessions. This afternoon he reiterated the ...  

Baghdad, May 25, IRNA -- Secretary of Supreme National Security Council of Iran (SNSCI), Saeed Jalili, said here on Thursday that the Tehran-G5+1 talks were held in a good atmosphere. Jalili told reporters that the Baghdad talks were intensive and long.  

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Friday that "significant differences" remain over Iran's nuclear program following two days of talks in Baghdad. Clinton says the P5+1 – the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany – presented Tehran with a detailed proposal on all aspects of Iran's uranium enrichment during this week's talks in Baghdad. The P5+1 plan reportedly calls on Iran to halt enrichment past 3.5%, ship its...  

Baghdad (AFP) May 24, 2012 Iran has the "absolute right" to uranium enrichment, Tehran's chief negotiator at talks in Baghdad with world powers, Saeed Jalili, said on Thursday. Peaceful nuclear energy and uranium enrichment is our "absolute right," Jalili told a news conference. Enrichment can be used for peaceful purposes but also to build a nuclear weapon. It is the international community's main concern over Ir  

BAGHDAD — Talks between six global powers and Iran over that country's nuclear program ended in Baghdad Thursday without results but negotiators set a date to meet again next month in Moscow."Significant problems remain," said Catherine Ashton, the European Union's top foreign policy official and the head for the so-called 5+1 delegation, told a news conference. "What we have now is some common ground, and a meeting in place where we can take...  

– Nuclear talks in Baghdad between the P5+1 and Iran have been extended for a second day while Iran seeks relief from economic sanctions before committing to another round of negotiations after Baghdad. – Egyptians voted for the second day of their presidential elections after millions voted yesterday, an unprecedented event in the Arab world [...]  

Negotiators from the US and five other world powers are holding talks with Iranian officials in Baghdad, Iraq, over Tehran's nuclear programme. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton walks with Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari in Baghdad (Picture: AFP/Getty) The second round of talks - underway amid tight security in the Iraqi capital's Green Zone - comes amid a longstanding impasse between the west and Iran over the...  

Iran and a group of six world powers have exchanged detailed proposals during talks in Baghdad over Tehran's disputed nuclear activities. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the major powers put forward a proposal that includes reciprocal, step-by-step confidence-building measures at the talks.  

The Red Notice is an international alert to Interpol member states for help locating and arresting the vice president on terrorism charges brought by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Hashimi has denied the charges against him and said they ...  

The "brief encounter" came after Iran rebuffed a US offer of face-to-face discussions between Wendy Sherman and her counterpart Saeed Jalili at the last talks between Iran and world powers in Istanbul last month. "Jalili paused to chat with ...  

Baghdad – Iran and six world powers wrapped up talks Thursday still far apart over how to oversee Tehran’s atomic program, but with resolve to keep dialogue going as an alternative to possible military action. Envoys said they will meet again next month in Moscow after negotiations stretched out for extra hours and a sandstorm [...]  

(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Qatar Airways Wednesday extended its Middle East routes with launching scheduled flights to the northern city of Erbil, Iraq. The Doha-based airline is operating four-flights-a-week non-stop on the route to Erbil, flights to ...  

Iran was offered a new batch of incentives to scale back its nuclear program by the five world powers present at the nuclear talks in Baghdad on Wednesday, according to Agence France Presse.The proposal by the P5+1 countries, the United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, would not provide relief from sanctions which Tehran is after, said AFP, but it was still "of interest to Iran," according to a spokesman.EU...  

Six-party negotiators hit up against Tehran’s insistence of its right to enrich uranium and demands for economic sanctions to be dropped. But was there in fact progress? Talks with Iran over its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons ran into a ...  

Operation Baghdad Pups, a program of SPCA International, began in 2007 when a young man found a new best friend in a dog. While that is hardly an uncommon occurence, what made this incident special was that the young man was an American soldier ...  

Iran stressed the need for democracy in Bahrain during talks with world powers in Baghdad over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili said at a press conference in the Iraqi capital. To contact the reporters on ...  

Iranian delegation arrived in Iraq on Monday. During his stay, Jalili conferred with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and a number of other top officials of the country.  

The report said elite Iraqi troops controlled by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are running two more secret jails in Baghdad where detainees are interrogated by judicial investigators. The rights group also said it is withholding the identities ...  

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili said the six world powers had a single, and not a package of, proposal for Iran in the Baghdad talks, which focused on uranium enrichment. "The opposite side had one proposal, and not a package of ...  

Baghdad (UPI) May 22, 2012 The signals coming out of Tehran in recent days suggest a breakthrough is possible in talks in Baghdad Wednesday between the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany and Iran over its contentious nuclear program. Even the Israelis, whose government has been threatening pre-emptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, are conceding that tone of Iranian state  

Last-ditch agreement reached in Baghdad to make another attempt at a compromise deal in Moscow next monthInternational talks over Iran's nuclear programme were salvaged from collapse in Baghdad with a last-ditch agreement to make another attempt at a compromise deal in Moscow next month.After two days of intense talks in the Iraqi capital, Lady Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, said: "It is clear that we both want to make progress, and that...  

The case against Mr. al-Hashemi threatens to paralyze Iraq’s government by fueling simmering Sunni and Kurdish resentments against Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who critics claim is monopolizing power. The Sunni vice president has ...  

The case against al-Hashemi threatens to paralyze Iraq's government by fueling simmering Sunni and Kurdish resentments against the Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who critics claim is monopolizing power. The Sunni vice president has been a longtime ...  

Baghdad – Iranian negotiators on Thursday rejected proposals by six world powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear program, and demanded answers to their own counteroffer meant to alleviate concerns about the Islamic Republic’s ability to build atomic weapons. The stance underscored the difficulties facing the nuclear talks as both sides stake out their terms and agendas [...]  

The 5+1 members are represented at the talks by Chinese Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, Britain's former ambassador to Iran Geoffrey Adams ...  

And last month, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused his Iraqi counterpart, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, of stoking sectarian tensions among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and of monopolising power. Maliki fired back, saying such ...  

Baghdad (AFP) May 23, 2012 Iran demanded late Wednesday that world powers sweeten proposals made in talks in Baghdad aimed at easing the crisis over Tehran's nuclear programme, saying future negotiations were at stake. "The points of agreement are not yet sufficient for another round," an Iranian official said on condition of anonymity and Western officials confirmed the talks would resume at 0500 GMT on Thursday for  

It's hard to overestimate the degree of naivet� on the part of the West as it heads toward another round of nuclear talks with Iran in Baghdad today. Clearly, Iran is stalling for time to develop a nuclear weapon. One example: In talks last month in Istanbul, Tehran seems to have convinced international negotiators of the sincerity and weight of a fatwa, or religious edict, by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that a nuclear bomb is...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say three bombs have struck a bird market in eastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding dozens.Police officials say the Friday morning attack targeted a bird market crowded with shoppers in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. They say 34 people were wounded in the blasts. A hospital official confirmed the casualty tolls. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized...  

BAGHDAD-World powers began a fresh round of talks with Iran on Wednesday amid hopes of progress toward a deal on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program that could help lift the threat of war hanging over the Middle East. Read full article >>  

And last month, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused his Iraqi counterpart, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, of stoking sectarian tensions among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and of monopolising power. Maliki fired back, saying such ...  

The US Senate has passed new Iran sanctions as Israel warns against concessions during upcoming talks with Tehran in Baghdad. The UN atomic watchdog's Iran trip, meanwhile, appears to have not produced concrete results.  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - World powers will test Iran's readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear program at talks on Wednesday aimed at easing a decade-old standoff and averting the threat of a Middle East war. The stakes could scarcely be higher: global oil markets are edgy over toughening sanctions on Iran's vital crude exports and the possibility of Israeli strikes against its defiant arch-foe, which has threatened...  

Boston GlobeNuclear talks with Iran to resume next monthBoston GlobeBy Ali Akbar Dareini and Lara Jakes | AP Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, addressed a news conference Thursday after a meeting in Baghdad. BAGHDAD — Iran and six world powers wrapped up talks Thursday still far apart over how to oversee Tehran's ...Iran nuclear talks: Stand-off continuesBBC NewsIran, big powers agree to hold more nuclear talks in JuneReutersIran, world...  

Tehran and six world powers clash in new talks in Baghdad, with Iran accusing them of not giving it a 'balanced' proposal.BAGHDAD — Hopes for quick progress on Iran's disputed nuclear program faded rapidly Wednesday, as diplomats from six world powers and Iran collided bitterly in daylong talks intended to resolve their long-standing differences over an effort many nations fear is aimed at building a nuclear bomb.  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, concerned by his portrayal in U.S. media as an autocratic leader intent on consolidating power, has invited several influential Washington scholars to Baghdad to meet his team next week.  

BAGHDAD -- Iran appeared to balk Wednesday at a detailed proposal presented by six world powers to address urgent concerns about its nuclear program, including a freeze on its enrichment of uranium that could be converted to bomb-grade fuel, because of ...  

Six world powers to make 'confidence-building' proposal for Tehran to scale down its enrichment programmeWorld powers will test Iran's readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear programme at talks in Baghdad aimed at easing the decade-old standoff. The meeting between Iran and six nations – the US, Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain – is the second since diplomacy resumed in mid-April in Istanbul after a tense 15...  

And last month, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused his Iraqi counterpart, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, of stoking sectarian tensions among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and of monopolizing power. Maliki fired back, saying such ...  

The talks between representatives of the U.S., Russia, France, Britain, Germany, China and Iran are aimed at diffusing rising tension in the region, with Iran seeking a reprieve from crippling sanctions imposed on its energy and banking sectors.  

Harris Corp. was awarded a contract of undisclosed value to provide a back-up air traffic control system for Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. The system will include touch-screen operator positions, radio and telephone interfaces, and a System Maintenance, Administration & Reconfiguration Terminal (SMART). Harris Corp. has extensive experience developing mission-critical solutions to support civil and military air traffic control...  

The new deal with Iran:”Exit question: What happens when Iran doesn’t close the deal? Answer: America will offer more. Just watch,” writes AEI’s Danielle Pletka. (AEI) “Wednesday’s meeting on Iran’s nuclear program will be a competition of fears. Who is sufficiently terrified of an atom bomb in Iranian hands to credibly threaten military action? Who fears the immediate economic consequences of Persian petroleum coming off the market more than...  

BAGHDAD -- Arab leaders on Thursday urged a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria at a landmark summit in Baghdad marred by stayaways and a mortar attack near the Iranian embassy as the meeting opened. Only nine visiting leaders of the 22-member Arab League turned up for the summit...  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Talks between Iran and world powers to defuse a dispute about Iran's nuclear goals go into a second day on Thursday with Washington cautiously hopeful of progress towards an agreed framework for addressing concerns that Tehran wants to build an atom bomb. "I believe we have the beginning of a negotiation," a senior U.S. official said of the discussions, which opened on Wednesday in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in a renewed...  

A heavy sandstorm choked Baghdad on Tuesday, sending dozens of people to hospital with respiratory problems and closing Baghdad airport. Visibility was reduced to only a few metres and most of those braving the streets wore surgical masks or protected their faces with masks.  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Following is the text of a statement issued by European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton at the conclusion of talks between Iran and six world powers in Baghdad on Thursday. "First of all, I would like to ...  

BAGHDAD (AFP/Reuters) – World powers and Iran have “not yet sufficient” grounds for an accord permitting another round of talks after the current round in Baghdad, an Iranian official said late on Wednesday as negotiations looked set to enter a second day. “The points of agreement are not yet sufficient for another round,” the official said on condition of anonymity, ...  

Six world powers, meeting with Iran in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have presented a proposal addressing concerns about Iran's pursuit of 20 percent uranium enrichment. Iran has previously declined to halt work on 20 percent enrichment -- a level that would ...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said.Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City was crowded with shoppers when the bombs exploded at around 7:00 a.m. At least 37 people were wounded in the blasts, officials said.A hospital official confirmed the casualty...  

HERB KEINON, HILARY LEILA KRIEGER IN WASHINGTON 05/24/2012 02:29 Iran, P5+1 exchange detailed proposals on uranium enrichment; Ya’alon accuses Tehran of still toying with world; State Department describes proposal as a package of first, reciprocal steps. Photo: REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani...  

BAGHDAD—Iraqi officials say gunmen have attacked a bus northeast of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding seven. Police officials say the Wednesday morning attack took place when gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying daily laborers who were ...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said. Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City was crowded with shoppers when the bombs exploded at around 7:00 a.m. The officials ad...  

Iraqi officials say three bombs have struck a bird market in eastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding dozens. Police officials say the Friday morning attack targeted a bird market crowded with shoppers in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. They say 34 people were wounded in the blasts.  

BAGHDAD - Iraq is acquiring unmanned surveillance drones from the United States as part of efforts to boost bilateral relations and also to beef up security of its oil installations and energy fuel ...  

The two-day negotiations with Group 5+1 are underway in Baghdad while different media have their own views about Iranian nuclear program ... The Supreme Leader’s edict made it clear that Islam prohibits producing weapons of mass destruction and the ...  

That means in Baghdad we must do better. On diplomacy, Washington, D.C., has hardly exhausted available means. Istanbul's negotiations did not witness White House senior leadership. Never has President Barack Obama, taking example from President ...  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - World powers and Iran held unusually detailed talks on Wednesday about how it could show its nuclear work is not a disguised quest for atom bombs, in a Baghdad meeting aimed at halting a slide toward a new Middle East war.  

Baghdad (CNN)-- Diplomats from Iran and six world powers pressed on with nuclear negotiations Thursday, after a stalemate pushed talks in Baghdad into a second day. Tight-lipped diplomats on both sides offered little insight as to why the talks ...  

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DUBAI, May 23 (Reuters) - Iran has proposed a "new and comprehensive" package of proposals to six world powers during talks on Wednesday in Baghdad over its disputed nuclear programme, Iranian media reported. "In this session of negotiations ...  

BAGHDAD: Iran and six world powers meet for talks in Baghdad on Wednesday ... which allows for more intrusive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA also wants Iran to address allegations made in its November ...  

The 5+1 members are represented at the talks by Chinese Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, Britain's former Ambassador to Iran Geoffrey Adams ...  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - World powers and Iran began negotiations in Baghdad on Wednesday, aiming to make progress towards resolving a dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme, diplomats said. Iran wants to win reprieve from economic sanctions as a result of the talks, while the six global powers -- United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany -- hope to win concessions over its uranium enrichment efforts they suspect are meant to...  

Iran's national currency has recovered its value against the dollar in expectation that today's nuclear talks in Baghdad between the country's officials and the world's major powers could establish a long-running procedure and defuse tensions over a ...  

BAGHDAD: Tough talks aimed at helping resolve the decade-old crisis over Iran's nuclear programme enter an unscheduled second day on Thursday with world powers and Tehran seemingly wildly at odds. On Wednesday at the meeting in Baghdad the P5+1 ...  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - World powers are hindering talks in Baghdad with Iran over its nuclear programme, creating a "difficult atmosphere", an Iranian delegation official said on Thursday. The so-called P5+1 nations -- United States, Russia, China, France ...  

Related European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili attend a meeting in Baghdad Iran says world powers creating "difficult atmosphere" at talks Topics Iran BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Talks resumed on ...  

CBC.caDetailed, 'engaged' Iran nuclear talks enter 2nd dayJerusalem PostBy REUTERS Washington cautiously hopeful of progress towards an agreed framework for addressing concerns that Tehran wants to build an atom bomb; global oil markets watching Baghdad negotiations closely. BAGHDAD - Talks between Iran and world powers to ...What the #!%*? Nuclear-charged meetings on IranNational PostIran nuclear talks enter second dayReutersNew proposals on...  

BAGHDAD, Oct 15, (KUNA): Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki said in Baghdad Saturday there should be “accuracy and wisdom” in dealing with the issue of the Kuwaiti Mubarak Al-Kabeer port. Speaking in an interview to an Iraqi satellite channel, to be ...  

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili, who is in Baghdad to hold talks with the representatives of the six world powers, held separate meetings with several high-ranking Iraqi officials. The Iranian delegation headed by Jalili, who is also ...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three bombs struck a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad this morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said. Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City was crowded with shoppers when the bombs exploded at around 7 a.m. The officials added that 37 people were wounded in the blasts. read more  

Beijing, May 21 (IANS) China has said that talks scheduled for later this week in Baghdad can help resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute as well as promote peace and stability in the region. Representatives from Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) and the European Union will [...]  

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says the talks between Iran and six major world powers (P5+1) scheduled to begin in Baghdad on Wednesday will be an important step towards finding an appropriate solution to Iran's nuclear issue. Talabani made the remark in a ...  

TEHRAN, May 22 (Xinhua) -- On the eve of the Baghdad nuclear talks between Iran and the world's major powers on Wednesday, the Iranian officials called for West's "change of attitude" towards Iran's nuclear program and removal of sanctions against the ...  

TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) in a meeting with Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim stressed the necessity for the further increase in cooperation between Tehran and Baghdad. Jalili ...  

Iran and six world powers are set to resume talks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, over a controversial nuclear programme that the West suspects Tehran is seeking to use to develop a nuclear bomb. The talks are expected to begin on Wednesday and ...  

BAGHDAD — Iran is demanding that world powers set specific timetables and goals in talks Wednesday over Tehran's nuclear program, a senior Iranian government official said before a second round of negotiations. The push for milestones by Iran ...  

"Their policies of pressure and intimidation are futile ... Some Iranian officials kept up a defiant tone. "The wall of distrust between Iran and the West is high and our public opinion has serious doubts about their compliance with their obligations.  

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has presented its own "comprehensive" package of proposals to six world powers during talks between the ... nuclear and non-nuclear issues," the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported. "In the first session, the ...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Leaders from nearly all of Iraq's top political blocs called Saturday for a solution to the nation's political crisis that pits the Shiite-led government against Sunnis and Kurds, saying the dispute threatens the country's national interests. The statement came after three-days of meetings that brought together senior Sunni, Kurdish and even Shiite politicians disgruntled with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki — who was not...  

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said. Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite ...  

The P5+1 offer requires Iran to comply with UN Security Council ... according to the Iranian diplomat. "We are ready to have a compromise on that [20 percent enrichment], as long as it is a step-by-step process," says the diplomat.  

Iran warned again that it would not give in to pressure, but both sides were upbeat about the scope for an outline deal as the meeting between Iran and the United States, Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain began in the Iraqi capital. "We had a ...  

Iraq summons Turkish envoy in ongoing row(AFP) – 23 hours ago BAGHDAD — Iraq summoned Ankara's envoy to Baghdad to complain about the conduct of two Turkish diplomats, the foreign ministry said Thursday, the latest bout of a weeks-long spat between the two neighbours.More:AFP: Iraq summons Turkish envoy in ongoing row  

BAGHDAD, May 22 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian delegation headed by chief negotiator Saeed Jalili has arrived in Baghdad to participate in the next round of nuclear talks between the six major powers and Iran scheduled on Wednesday, an Iraqi official television ...  

"Their policies of pressure and intimidation are futile. They have to adopt policies to show goodwill to solve this issue." Russia said the Islamic Republic appeared ready for serious discussion of substantive steps to resolve the impasse in ...  

"Only thus will it be possible to ensure that Iran will not have a nuclear bomb," Netanyahu said. On Wednesday, the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, urged other countries to intensify the pressure on Iran. "Without a tightening of the sanctions Iran ...  

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)-- Three roadside bombs exploded Friday in quick succession at an outdoor pet market in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 31 others, police officials said. The bombings took place at a market where young men buy and ...  

In a separate development, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said Tuesday the national atomic energy organization has delivered domestically-made nuclear fuel to a research reactor in Tehran for the first time. The report said two batches of the ...  

Baghdad (AFP) May 18, 2012 Three near-simultaneous bomb blasts at a pet market in east Baghdad killed five people on Friday, officials said, just hours after an attack in the city's southeast left five dead. The explosions, which occurred at around 7:00 am (0400 GMT) in the Maamal area, also wounded at least 31 other people, the security and medical officials said. "At least five people were killed and 31 others w  

BAGHDAD, May 23 (Reuters) - Iran and world powers exchanged unusually detailed proposals at talks in Baghdad on Wednesday in hopes of defusing a long standoff over suspicions Tehran's atomic energy programme may be a disguised quest for nuclear ...  

BAGHDAD, May 22 (UPI) -- A dust storm shut down Iraq's airport Tuesday ahead of key talks between world powers and Iran regarding Tehran's nuclear program, authorities said. Iraqi officials told reporters the closure of the airport began at ...  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three roadside bombs ripped through a Baghdad marketplace on Friday, killing at least four people and injuring at least 30 more near one of the capital's main Shi'ite neighbourhoods, police and hospital sources said. The almost simultaneous blasts in Ma'amil, near the Sadr City district in eastern Baghdad, occurred in the early morning when there were few people attending the ...  

BAGHDAD - A dust storm shut Baghdad airport on Tuesday, an Iraqi Airways official said, a day ahead of key talks between world powers and Iran on the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear programme. "There are no take-offs or landings ... because of bad ...  

AMMAN (Reuters) - Global powers will present Iran with a detailed proposal including confidence-building measures when the two sides meet in Baghdad on Wednesday for talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, a senior Western official said on Tuesday.  

Tehran is optimistic that the Baghdad talks would be a good start to promote cooperation in international, regional and nuclear issues.” Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili Secretary of Iran's Supreme National ...  

Whether this is a good metaphor for the real issues on the table is open to question. The mood music coming out of Brussels and Tehran has been upbeat ahead of the talks and the prospect has been raised of the outline of a confidence-building ...  

The June 28, 2012, episode of American Heroes Radio features a conversation with Major Todd Baker, USA (ret.) who served as chief of the Emergency Medical Treatment (EMT) Section of the 86th Combat Support Hospital; and, is the author of Baghdad ER: Fifteen Minutes. Program Date: June 28, 2012Program Time: 1500 hours, PACIFIC Topic: BAGHDAD ER: Fifteen Minutes Listen Live:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lawenforcement/2012/06/28/baghdad-er...  

we will make judgments about Iran’s behavior based on actions, not just promises or agreements.” Even Mr. Amano said the talks had not yet produced an agreement on how the I.A.E.A. could conduct the inspections and interviews it demands.  

Optimism always makes me nervous, and today's news about the offer we plan to put on the table hasn't eased my anxiety. In return for all this, Iran would get various little things--spare airplane parts, safety upgrades for its nuclear energy program ...  

Yesterday was May Day.  Ali Hussein (Al Mada) reports that Nouri al-Maliki responded to the various gatherings and celebrations by the Communist Party by insisting that the Party's actions did nothing to help workers and, basically, the Party should just be quiet and be content to see Nouri, on the official holiday, visit a car factory.  Dar Addustour reports hundreds gathered in Baghdad's  

TEHRAN, May 22 (Xinhua) -- On the eve of the Baghdad nuclear talks between Iran and the world's major powers on Wednesday, the Iranian officials called for West's "change of attitude" towards Iran's nuclear program and removal of sanctions against the ...  

The Arab League summit that began Thursday in Baghdad has illuminated the political and religious divisions splitting with Arab world, while powerful eastern non-Arab neighbor Iran looks on and tries to pull Iraq's strings. One of those fractures is between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, branded a would-be dictator by domestic rivals, who is sitting down with the new leaders of countries that have overthrown tyrants in the often-bloody...  

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Diplomatic storm rages around commander accused of ordering the kidnap of British contractors and murder of American soldiersA senior Hezbollah commander accused of orchestrating the killing of British and US citizens is at the centre of a diplomatic storm after a Baghdad court last week ordered his release.US government officials have accused Ali Musa Daqduq, a Lebanese citizen, of involvement in a string of attacks, including the killing of...  

Chinese, French, German, Russian, British and U.S. negotiators -- the so-called P5+1 group -- meet their Iranian counterparts for ... according to state-run news channel Al-Alam. “We need to see this path as a long one,” Alaeddin Boroujerdi ...  

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki visited Tehran recently. There has been talk of formalising a strategic alliance between the two largely Shiite countries to face off the Sunni Arabs in the GCC states and, may be down the road, Sunni Turkey.  

Arbil, Iraq (AFP) April 28, 2012 Top Iraqi politicians, many of whom feel marginalised by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's style of governing, called on Saturday in Arbil for greater democracy in running the country. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Massud Barzani, the president of the autonomous Kurdistan region, Iyad Allawi, the head of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, and Sunni parliam  

Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981. The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country. The ...  

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki named security as one of his three top priorities after parliament on Tuesday approved his nomination for a second term of office and gave its stamp of approval to his national unity government. While violence has dropped ...  

Al-Hashemi long has been a leading critic of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, and was considered a confidant of American Vice President Joe Biden. Days after the U.S. military left Iraq in December, al-Maliki's government issued a warrant for al ...  

BAGHDAD - Officials of six world powers and Iran gathered at an imposing guest house in Baghdad's international zone in a hopeful but subdued atmosphere for one or two days of talks on Iran's disputed nuclear program. The six world powers opened ...  

The 2007 agreement, negotiated by former IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei, cleared Iran of some suspicions before breaking down. European and U.S. diplomats criticized that accord as a stalling tactic. The program was derailed after Iran refused to address ...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Interpol has issued a so-called "red notice" for Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president who is currently in Turkey.The Lyon, France-based organization says Tuesday's move came at the request of the government in Baghdad.Iraq has charged Tariq al-Hashemi with terrorism and has accused him of running death squads that targeted government officials, security forces and Shiite pilgrims. He is one of the nation's highest-ranking Sunni...  

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say three bombs have struck a bird market in eastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding dozens. Police officials say the Friday morning attack targeted a bird market crowded with shoppers in the Shiite ...  

JERUSALEM, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Israeli officials on Tuesday expressed sharp doubts over the outcome of upcoming talks between the P5+1 group and Iran over Teheran's nuclear fuel enrichment program. "It appears that the Iranians are trying to reach a ...  

Najaf, Iraq (AFP) April 16, 2012 A delegation from radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement on Monday visited a suspected militant of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement being held in a Baghdad jail, the movement said. "A delegation made up of three of Moqtada al-Sadr's advisers met today in a Baghdad prison with Ali Musa Daqduq," an official of the Sadr movement told AFP in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. He said the a  

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is installing more centrifuges in an underground plant but does not yet appear to be using them to expand higher-grade uranium enrichment that could take it closer to producing atom bomb material, Western diplomats say.  

The differences between the U.S. and Israeli positions on Iran’s nuclear program are about to become very clear, and the Obama administration is reassuring the Jewish community that the divide is not so vast. Administration officials in a ...  

Iraqi officials say a bomb left inside a minibus has killed two commuters and wounded nine others in Baghdad.A police officer says the bomb exploded when the bus reached the northern Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah around 10:30 a.m. on Monday.Two revered Shiite Imams are buried in Kazimiyah and Shiite pilgrims converge from inside and outside Iraq to the site. The area's big market also attracts thousands of shoppers every day.A health...  

M.P. Sami al-Askari, a close aide to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, further stated that any heavy weaponry seized after the fall of Saddam must be turned over to the central government. The Kurds countered by saying that the constitution does ...  

Boston.comblasts at Baghdad pet market kill 5CNNBaghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Three roadside bombs exploded Friday in quick succession at an outdoor pet market in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 31 others, police officials said. The bombings took place at a market where young men buy and sell ...Iraq Bomb Blasts: Explosions At Baghdad Bird Market Kill At Least 5Huffington PostIraq: Baghdad pet market bombing kills 5GlobalPostThree bomb...  

BAGHDAD — Arab leaders who gathered Thursday in Baghdad broke no new ground on Syria or other regional crises, but their summit was still hailed as a success — for returning Iraq to the Arab fold after years of isolating war and occupation. Ten of the Arab League's 22 member nations sent a head of state to the summit, most notably Kuwait, whose emir traded ceremonial kisses with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, a rapprochement that comes...  

Negotiators from Iran and UN's nuclear watchdog agency have made enough progress during two days of technical talks in Vienna that they will resume next Monday.The unexpected result indicates that there has been some flexibility from both Iran and UN nuclear negotiators regarding access to a military base at Parchin, and agreement on a plan to resolve all questions about allegations of weapons work.The Monday meeting is set to occur just two...  

Baghdad (AFP) April 26, 2012 Powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will meet Kurdistan chief Massud Barzani Thursday in a bid to resolve a crisis between the autonomous region and Baghdad, the cleric's spokesman said. "An invitation has been sent to the sayyid (Sadr) for this visit, and he responded by saying 'yes,'" Sadr's spokesman Salah al-Obeidi told a news conference in Baghdad when asked about a potential v  

After all the fingerprints of the Israeli Mossad are all over these assassinations of these Iranian nuclear scientists, utilizing the [Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization] MEK as their proxy in these killings.” The United States, Israel and Britain have ...  

The Iraqi government organized a trip for journalists to Sharaf Prison in the capital Baghdad, following a report by Human Rights Watch about prisoners being beaten up and electrocuted. The rights organization accused the Iraqi government of ...  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb and a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday, killing 5 civilians and wounding 27 people, police and hospital sources said. The roadside blast happened in the Sadr city area and targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint. The car bomb exploded in the Hurriya district and appeared to be aimed at a passing police patrol. Six members of the security forces were among the wounded, police sources said...  

BAGHDAD — Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said. Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite neighborhood ...  

Jalili told reporters after his meeting with the visiting director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),Yukiya Amano in Tehran on Monday. Fars news agency also reports that Jalili arrived in Baghdad late on Monday for talks and was ...  

Tehran (AFP) May 13, 2012 Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Sunday that Tehran will not yield to pressure ahead of talks with the UN atomic watchdog and the world powers over its controversial nuclear drive. "The time for pressure strategy has come to an end," Jalili told former French socialist premier Michel Rocard, who is in Tehran on a private visit, local official news agencies reported. Jal  

Outside the International Zone (formerly known as the Green Zone), Iraqi soldiers wearing balaclavas stand on the turrets of armoured jeeps. These talks mark ... dust covers the tomatoes and melons on sale in a stall next to the road.  

Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Sunday that Tehran will not yield to pressure ahead of talks with the UN atomic watchdog and the world powers over its controversial nuclear drive."The time for pressure strategy has come to an end," Jalili told former French socialist premier Michel Rocard, who is in Tehran on a private visit, local official news agencies reported.  

Ankara-Baghdad diplomatic row: Iraq summons Turkey envoyIraq summons Turkey's ambassador in Baghdad to protest ‘unacceptable’ remarks made by Turkish premier.BAGHDAD - Iraq has summoned Turkey's ambassador in Baghdad, Yunus Demirer, to protest "unacceptable" remarks made by the Turkish premier, a statement posted on the foreign ministry's website said on Monday.More:.:Middle East Online::Ankara-Baghdad diplomatic row: Iraq summons Turkey envoy...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's preferred path to end the Iranian nuclear standoff faces a stern test this week when world powers sit down with Iran in another bid to press it to meet international demands to prove it is not trying ...  

whose political conflict with the Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki resulted in him being sought by Iraqi authorities on terrorism charges. It is critical for Saudi Arabia to pull Syria out of Iran's belly, which explains why the Saudi ...  

Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called for a boycott of the upcoming Formula 1 race in Bahrain over the kingdom's continued crackdown on dissidents, in a statement released on Thursday."I call on all honest sportsmen not to participate in that race ... and to support the Bahraini people in their rejection of holding this race," the cleric, who heads the powerful Sadr movement, said in a statement released by his office in the Shiite...  

Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Apr 19, 2012 The bloodbath in Syria is developing into a battle between Islam's mainstream Sunni sect, led by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and the breakaway Shiites, led by Iran. The main fear in the region is the conflict could spread to Arab states, particularly those with sharp sectarian divisions, such as Iraq and Lebanon. Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil producer and the birthplace of I  

Baghdad (AFP) April 21, 2012 Bombs exploded in two minibuses in Baghdad on Saturday, killing three people and wounding at least 12, while a bomb attack on a governor's convoy wounded two guards, security officials said. An interior ministry official said the bombs in the minibuses exploded about 8:30 am (0530 GMT) near a Shiite place of worship in the Chikouk area in north Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 12.  

Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government last month issued an arrest warrant for the Sunni vice-president , the country's top Sunni politician. The Sunni official, Tariq al-Hashemi, is holed up in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region ...  

Meantime, Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim said Sunday that any progress in the talks between Iran and the six world powers in Baghdad on Wednesday would strengthen Iraq's standing in the region. Hakim said success in Tehran ...  

BAGHDAD — Bombings struck several areas in Baghdad and to the north Thursday, killing at least 30 people in the first major attacks in Iraq in nearly a month. The violence stoked fears that insurgents were trying to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government amid rising sectarian tensions.  

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed three policemen in an attack on a security checkpoint north of Baghdad. Police officials say the attack early Monday took place when gunmen in two speeding car opened fire ...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — The terror trial against Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president is set to start in Baghdad. The case has touched off a political crisis in the country and could deepen the nation's sectarian divide.Tariq al-Hashemi was not expected to be in court Thursday to face charges he ran death squads against government officials, security forces and Shiite pilgrims.Al-Hashemi is Iraq's top Sunni official. He has denied the charges that he...  

Najaf, Iraq (AFP) May 11, 2012 Some of the most famed Shiite clerics of modern times have gathered together in a modest room under a religious school in Najaf in central Iraq - as wax figures, waiting to be put on display. The 20 likenesses depicting people who studied, lived or were born in Najaf, most of them clerics, are arrayed around the walls of the carpeted room, with fans protecting them from the heat. Anothe  

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 23, the United States and its international partners will sit down in Baghdad for another round of talks with Iran. While a diplomatic deal remains the best hope for a peaceful resolution to the international standoff over Iran's...  

In all, officials said extremists launched 12 attacks in Baghdad and in northern Iraq, in Kirkuk, Samarra, Dibis and Taji. Additionally, mortars were fired into the northern cities of Beiji and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, but no injuries were reported there.  

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has changed Turkey's position vis-à-vis the Kurds dramatically. Maliki's grand ambition is to geopolitically realign Iraq with its historical Shiite ideology, alongside Iran. Such a strategy, although criticized by ...  

BAGHDAD — Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq's ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate — and unequal. Sunnis are locked out of key jobs at universities and in government, their leaders banned from Cabinet meetings or even marked as fugitives. Sunnis cannot get help finding the bodies of loved ones killed in the war. And Shiite banners are everywhere in Baghdad. With the Americans no longer here to play...  

Joel Wing passes on a noteworthy development: "On April 28, 2012, the Baghdad Operations Command began taking down concrete blast walls throughout Iraq’s capital. The Iraqi security forces have been talking about doing this as far back as 2008, (1) and some were removed in the Fadel district that year. (2) The barriers were originally erected by the United States to section off certain neighborhoods in Baghdad to stop insurgent and militia...  

In Baghdad today, AP reports that a mini-bus bombing claimed 2 lives and left nine people injured. As the violence never fades, Heath Druzin (Stars and Stripes) offers an analysis of Iraq which includes:In a four-day span last week, Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish government cut off oil shipments to Baghdad, Sunni-majority Qatar refused to hand over Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president to the  

The round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and six world powers will take place in Baghdad, Iraq late next month. Following Saturday's discussions in Turkey, Tehran agreed to hold more talks, a landmark step after years of stalled negotiations around the Islamic Republic's developing nuclear program.  

BAGHDAD -  I participated in the May Day march in central Baghdad organized by the Iraqi Communist Party. Thousands marched, waving red flags and raising banners with workers' and trade unionist demands. The mood was defiant but also jubilant. (See additional photos of the march here.)The government initially refused to give a permit for the march to start from Firdos Square and end up in Liberation (Tahrir) Square. The refusal came...  

But he did not predict whether Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki would be ousted from power. Barzani says opposition parties have run out of patience after feeling sidelined in al-Maliki's Shiite-led government. He says the impasse must be resolved ...  

MARLTON, N.J. and BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Iraq Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to provide design management and construction management services for the new Al Bayaa Teaching Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. The three-year contract has an estimated value to Hill of...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after allegations that detainees were tortured and abused there, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.  

In Iraq, the political crisis continues.  Gozde Nur Donat (Today's Zaman) observes: In the midst of a massive wave of political transformation across the entire Middle East, Iraq’s Tehran-backed Shiite leadership has turned a blind eye to the country’s fragile truce among various ethnic and sectarian groups, throwing Iraq’s key power-sharing agreement into disarray in an attempt to  

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Tehran for an official visit on Sunday, according to Iranian state news agency IRNA. The meeting comes ahead of a second round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West, slated to take place in ...  

For a few years, Kimberly Dozier's life was defined by one horrible day in Iraq. On Memorial Day in 2006, the Baghdad-based foreign correspondent for CBS News was on patrol with a U.S. Army unit when a massive car bomb killed two of her CBS colleagues, an Army officer and an Iraqi translator.  

An official from the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Monday Turkey is closely watching Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s official visit to Tehran, which comes after a recent war of words between Maliki and Turkish senior government officials.  

Baghdad violence left six people dead on Monday, including a mother and her three children who were stabbed to death in their home, officials said.A mother, her 13-year-old boy, and two girls aged five and seven were stabbed to death in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Kamaliyah on Monday morning, security and medical officials said.The family's father, who works at the ministry of health, had already left for his office.  

BAGHDAD -- Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said. Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite ...  

A video posted online purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government.Related StoriesChristians mark Easter in JerusalemBurma rebels in talks with Suu KyiUS to sign Afghan night raids dealPope urges end to Syria bloodshedNigeria city hit by car bombing  

Iraq's deputy prime minister has called on Qatar to hand over the nation's fugitive Sunni vice president to face terror charges in Baghdad.Hussain al-Shahristani made the demand during a Monday news conference in Baghdad.He said Qatar's decision to host Tariq al-Hashemi, the top Sunni official in Iraq's Shiite-led government, was "unacceptable."Qatar has criticized what it calls the marginalization of Iraqi Sunnis.Al-Hashemi's trip to Qatar is...  

Baghdad (AFP) March 23, 2012 Talib al-Ajami stands near his makeshift house in a garbage and sewage-filled slum in north Baghdad holding a torn, creased letter from insurgents who drove him from his home in 2006. "In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful," the letter begins, but the only mercy in what follows is that Talib received a "final warning" instead of being killed outright. "We know about you and yo  

From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed The study has been published in Weather, a publication of the Royal Meteorological Society Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are … Continue reading →  

Alsumaria reports a Baghdad roadside bombing has left 6 people dead and a Ministry of Health official's wife and 3 children were killed when unknown assailants slit their throats.  Al Rafidayn says the wife and children were killed by blunt objects. A major news topic in the Iraqi press is Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi.  The political crisis was already well in effect when December 2011 rolled  

BAGHDAD (AP) The eerie quiet enveloping the road from the airport to the Saddam Hussein-era palace where Arab leaders will meet this week cannot conceal Baghdad's grim realities. Behind the freshly planted palm trees and lawns are concrete walls closing  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Insurgents in Iraq have shattered weeks of calm with a series of blasts today that killed at least 23 Iraqis.Officials say extremists launched 10 attacks in Baghdad and in northern Iraq. Targets also were in Kirkuk, Samarra, Dibis and Taji. Additionally, mortars were fired into the northern cities of Beiji and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, but no injuries were reported there.At least 79 people were wounded in the rapid...  

Hashimi, one of Iraq's highest-ranking minority Sunni politicians, fled Baghdad in December when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government sought his arrest. Hashimi's son-in-law, Ahmad Ahmad Kahtan, and more than 70 of his bodyguards have ...  

It is a false expectation that the Baghdad meeting will mark the end of the negotiations. “The Baghdad meeting will be a continuation of the Istanbul talks.” Representatives of Iran and the six major powers held a new round of talks in Istanbul on ...  

Bombs ripped through 10 Iraqi cities Thursday, killing at least 30 people and shattering a month of relative calm. Minority lawmakers decried the violence as a tragic but inevitable result of the Shiite-led government’s attempts to dominate Iraqi politics.  

They said ongoing bickering over a stalled power-sharing agreement with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, has opened the door to violence. "The deterioration in the security situation is a result of the differences between the political ...  

BAGHDAD - Iraq may be open to letting Exxon Mobil Corp. keep some of its disputed oil deals in the self-ruled Kurdish region if they and similar contracts meet Baghdad's approval, the country's top energy official has said. Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani said on Thursday tha  

Muqtada Al-Sadr, one of Iraq's most important religious and political Shiite men, has surprised us with a statement that added to our information about Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, who is also a Shiite. Al-Sadr told us something we did not ...  

WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- U.S. officials slated to take part in nuclear negotiations with Iran in Baghdad aren't likely to back off sanctions on Iran's energy sector, officials said. Baghdad hosts a second-round of multiparty talks Wednesday ...  

Tehran, May 13 (Xinhua-ANI): Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia and Oceania Affairs Abbas Araghchi has said that Baghdad is safe for upcoming nuclear meeting of Iran and the major powers of the world. Tehran completely trusts Iraq to provide security ...  

For example, they warn that Turkey and Sunni Arab states are mobilizing to weaken the Shiite political elite in Baghdad who back Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and instead want to empower a coalition comprised of Iraqi Sunni Arab and (Sunni) Kurdish interests.  

"Iraq is afraid of the attempts to militarise the Arab uprisings" ... Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attends the Arab League summit in Baghdad. Photo: AP BAGHDAD: Sunni Muslim rulers have largely shunned an Arab League summit hosted by Shiite-led ...  

A senior Iranian lawmaker urges the six major world powers to alter their confrontational approach towards Tehran ahead of the talks between Iran and the P5+1 in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. “Instead of the policy of confrontation against Iran, the West ...  

In late April, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki labeled Turkey an "enemy state" bent on interfering in his country's internal affairs. In response, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his Iraqi counterpart -- leader of a Shiite ...  

BAGHDAD _ Nine Arab heads of state have confirmed participation in next week's Arab League summit in Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday. "More presidents and kings continue to say they will come to Baghdad. I think until now nine ...  

BAGHDAD – Sunni Muslim rulers largely shunned an Arab League summit hosted by Shiite-led Iraq on Thursday, illustrating how powerfully the sectarian split and the rivalry with Iran define Middle Eastern politics in the era of the Arab Spring.  

ARBIL: Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region expects to start exporting its crude oil along a new pipeline to the Turkish border by August 2013, defying Baghdad in a long-running dispute over who controls the country's oil sales.  

The nation's once powerful Sunnis complain that the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is concentrating power in the hands of the Shiites. There is a growing desire by mainly Sunni provinces to win autonomy as a way to ...