Topic: Iraq
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 ...
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 campaign has built ...
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 Afghanistan as quickly as possible."As rapidly as the generals think is safe," Gingrich ...
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 former President Ronald Reagan were still alive he would ...
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 civilians and wreaking havoc ...
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 and other US officials came around a week after ...
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 ...
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-line vote came after a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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