News on Iraq

Romney sees long, bitter nominating fight ahead

2011-12-19T06:30:24Z

Mitt Romney geared up Monday for a long and bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination even as he attacked current frontrunner Newt Gingrich as "unreliable" and "zany."

With the first Republican nominating contest a little over two weeks away in Iowa, Romney made his first appearance on a Sunday television talk show since March 2010 to try to rec...

Veterans to tout Obama's record as military leader

2011-12-15T15:00:31Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - As the war in Iraq draws to a close, U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has quietly enlisted an army of veterans to urge other military men and women to vote for him in November.

The Obama c...

Gingrich says would bring troops home faster

2011-07-13T10:00:12Z

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Wednesday that as president he would draw down U.S. troops in Iraq and...

McCain rips Republican candidates for "isolationism"

2011-06-20T12:31:00Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain, his party's 2008 presidential nominee, ripped into the current crop of Republican White House contenders, accusing them of breaking party tradition by preaching "isolationism."

McCain said if forme...

Top US Republican impressed by progress in Iraq

2011-04-17T15:30:32Z

US House Speaker John Boehner, on a visit to Baghdad, hailed Iraq's march toward self-governance by year's end, praising it as "a different country" from the violence-ridden recent past.

"Just four years ago, a terrorist insurgency was killing innocent c...

Maliki tells US's Boehner Iraqi troops are ready

2011-04-16T18:30:23Z

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki insisted Iraqi forces were capable of maintaining security in the country during talks with US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner in Baghdad on Saturday.

Maliki's evening meeting with Boehner...

Ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame to write female spy books

2011-03-21T09:30:29Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame will co-author a fiction spy series of books with a female undercover espionage operative as the central character, Penguin books said on Monday.

Plame, whose real life global espionage tale has already been depicted in last year's Hollywood film, "

US House votes to cut $61 bn in govt spending

2011-02-19T09:30:11Z

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives voted early on Saturday to cut about $61 billion in government spending, setting the stage for a bruising political battle with Democrats who control the Senate and the White House.

The 235-189 partisan-lin...

US spending battle escalates amid shutdown fears

2011-02-18T17:30:44Z

A grueling and already angry US Congress battle over painful spending cuts escalated Friday amid growing concerns that the world's richest country hurtled towards a government shutdown.

The US House of Representatives' Republican leaders aimed to wrap up the fight and vote late in the day on their package to fund the

Obama, Republicans spar on jobs before key speech

2011-01-25T06:30:22Z

President Barack Obama on Tuesday faces a US public hungry for jobs, and Republicans eager to oust him, when he delivers his yearly "State of the Union" speech in a tense new era of power-sharing.

Obama steps up at 9:00 pm (0200 GMT Wednesday) to address a joint session of the Reuters) - Condoleezza Rice admits the Bush administration made mistakes after the September 11 attacks but readers seeking her view on the decisions leading to the war in Iraq will find no such grist in her new memoir.

"We made our mistakes undoubtedly," the former ...

Dems Turn On Obama Over Iraq, Afghanistan

2010-10-06T20:03:58Z

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Iraq War to End

2010-11-02T13:47:03Z

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President Obama's Speech Shifts Responsibility

2010-09-11T00:44:07Z

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Iraq Violence

2010-12-31T10:31:21Z

Iraqi Christians pray for slain Christians, Fawzi Rahim, 76, and Janet Mekha, 78, during their funeral Mass at St. George Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Militants in Iraq have attacked at least four Christian homes with a combination of grenades and bombs, killing and wounding a ...

Iraq Christians

2010-12-31T10:31:19Z

Pictures of slain Iraqi Christians displayed at Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Militants in Iraq have attacked at least four Christian homes with a combination of grenades and bombs, killing and wounding a few people and sending fear into the country's already terrified tiny Christian community, police said. (AP Photo/Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Militants in Iraq have attacked at least four Christian homes with a combination of grenades and bombs, killing and wounding a few people and sending fear into the country's already terrified tiny Christian community, police said. (AP Photo/Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Security officials are investigating the possibility of removing some of the hundreds of checkpoints across the city, in a sign of the improving security situation. The checkpoints are designed to catch insurgents, but they also slow down traffic in the alrea...

Iraq Oil

2010-12-28T07:00:36Z

FILE - In this May 31, 2009 file photo, an employee works at Tawke oil fields in the semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Iraq's Kurds pushed the central government on Tuesday to recognize oil contracts they signed with international companies by insisting the self-ruled region will not resume exports until Baghdad recognizes the deals. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

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