Topic: Baghdad

US VP-elect Biden in Iraq: state TV

US vice president-elect Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Monday for talks with Iraqi leaders and senior US officials, Al-Iraqiya state television reported.The Delaware senator, who will surrender his seat to assume the US vice presidency on January 20 and also visited ...
Iraqi views mixed on US presidential contest with US presence the main issueWasan Salah hopes Barack Obama will win the presidency because " " An Iraqi Christian woman thinks he will too and so she's rooting for John McCain.Iraqis have nearly as ...

McCain Losing Touch with Iraqi Reality

Yesterday's alleged American incursion into Syria brought the war in Iraq back into the headlines briefly this morningalthough that issue has receded even further from campaign consciousness as economic fears take over.close attention to what has actually been happening to understand just ...

The Forgotten Liberators of Iraq

A casualty of the left's hatred for President George W. Bush has been a destructive inability to separate fact from fiction in the ongoing history of the war in Iraq. Now, he had to come to grips with the undeniable freedom wrought ...

War in Iraq, George W. Bush

Accomplished? On May 1, President Bush triumphantly proclaimed the end of combat operations, and he did it with a theatrical flourish. Attired in a Navy flight suit, the former Air National Guard trainee (Bush had actually cut short his flight training to ...
House oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman says the Bush Administration knew about the September 2007 deal that Texas-based Hunt Oil struck with Kurdish officials in Iraq. That contradicts what President Bush said at the time. That deal was controversial because it came ...

Key figures about Iraq

Key Figures About Iraq Since the War Began in March 2003Key figures about Iraq since the war began in March 2003U.S. TROOP LEVELS:_November 2007: 162,000_January 2007: 137,000CASUALTIES:_Confirmed U.S. military deaths as of Nov. 30, 2007: 3,880_Confirmed U.S. military wounded as of Nov. ...
Key figures about Iraq since the war began in March 2003U.S. TROOP LEVELS:_November 2007: 162,000_January 2007: 137,000CASUALTIES:_Confirmed U.S. military deaths as of Nov. 30, 2007: 3,880_Confirmed U.S. military wounded as of Nov. 30, 2007: 28,582._U.S. military deaths for November 2007: 37, lowest ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she will bring another troops-out-of-Iraq bill to the House floor on Friday.. It will be the 58th "politically motivated" bill on the Iraq war by the House and Senate this year, Republicans complained.. House ...

Senate urges power-sharing in Iraq

Senate Passes Iraq Power-Sharing Resolution; Vote Not Expected to Change U.S. PolicyThe Senate passed a resolution Wednesday suggesting Baghdad limit the power of its federal government and give more control to Iraq's ethnically divided regions.The 75-23 vote marked the first agreement on ...