War in Iraq

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani supported the policy of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki aimed at fighting terrorism and facing mischievous intentions targeting the political process in Iraq. In a joint press conference with Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, Talabani evoked his scheduled visit to France ...  

FORT HOOD, Texas – The 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division "Long Knives" received word of a future deployment to Iraq less than a month ago, but the brigade has been focused on preparing for such news since returning from Iraq in the ...  

There was widespread condemnation from around the world today of an Iraqi court ruling fining the Guardian for reporting criticism of the country's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.A broad range of leading journalists, Iraq experts, civic society activists and former officials involved in Iraq's postwar reconstruction said the ruling and fine – for an article quoting intelligence officials as saying Maliki was becoming increasingly...  

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki met on Wednesday with tribal leaders from Baghdad's Sadr City. Al Maliki warned that Iraq’s “enemies” are continuing to try and undermine the political process, especially now that elections are imminent Maintaining security would remain his top ...  

MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) – Gunmen killed a Christian teenager in a drive-by shooting outside his family home on Friday in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul , police said. "Unidentified gunmen opened fire from a speeding black car on the adolescent ...  

Incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is hoping for a repeat of last January's provincial elections — that's when Iraqi voters rejected overtly religious parties and turned to his more secular slate. Luckily for him, those religious parties don't seem to have gotten the message. One of the largest Shiite religious parties is spending millions on an Iranian-style mausoleum to its fallen leaders. It's by far the biggest construction in the...  

An Iraqi court has ordered The Guardian newspaper to pay Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki damages of £52,000 ($A94,000) after supporting a complaint by the Iraqi intelligence service that he had been defamed by a report describing him as increasingly autocratic.  

ABOARD DEFENSE SECRETARY’S PLANE — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has established a senior-level task force to streamline the efforts of military services and agencies to find and destroy roadside bombs, which have plagued American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.The task force will be led by Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter and Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John Paxton, the Joint Staff’s director for operations J-3, Gates told reporters...  

An Iraqi court has ordered the Guardian to pay Nouri al-Maliki damages of 100m dinar (£52,000) after supporting a complaint by the Iraqi prime minister's intelligence service that he had been defamed by a Guardian story in April describing him as increasingly autocratic. More on Iraq  

An Iraqi court found the British newspaper, Guardian, guilty of defaming Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki by charging he was displaying authoritarian tendencies. The article in question was written by award-winning correspondent, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, whose story quoted three unnamed members of the Iraqi National Intelligence Agency as saying the prime minister was beginning to run Iraqi [...]  

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Nov. 8 in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained when their OH-58D helicopter crashed. They were assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Killed were: Chief Warrant Officer Mathew C. Heffelfinger, 29, of Kimberly, Idaho; and Chief...  

(updated below) In April of this year, the British daily, The Guardian, published an article by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi citizen, documenting the increasingly autocratic practices of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.  The article quoted an Iraqi intelligence official claiming that "Maliki is running a dictatorship."  As if to prove their point, the reaction of the Maliki government was to sue The Guardian under a law that does...  

BAGHDAD—Iraq's prime minister warned on Wednesday that insurgents will try to undermine the country's fledgling democracy in the run-up to January's national elections. Nouri al-Maliki told tribal leaders from Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district ...  

Iraq has arrested 73 people suspected of playing a direct role in two massive bombs that killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on October 25, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Tuesday.They are suspected of working on the orders of the outlawed Baath party of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and included members of Al-Qaeda, Maliki told reporters in Baghdad.  

Unfortunately, many have forgotten the cries of invade Iraq that were sounded by the right wing media and members of the Bush administration. Those, like Cheney and Bush, who had never witnessed the horrors of war, were gung ho to invade, kill, destroy and proclaim the glory of democracy. Fast forward six years [...]