Topic: Jalal Talabani
Iraq will open talks with Washington over a military training mission to last beyond a 2011 pullout deadline, Baghdad's Foreign Minister said on Wednesday, after months of US appeals for a decision.The move is a key first step to reaching ...
Iraq's president has called a meeting to decide whether US troops should stay beyond a year-end deadline, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday, adding there could be consensus to keep a small number of trainers.President Jalal Talabani had set last ...
A senior security officer was shot dead at a construction site in north Iraq on Sunday as new figures showed the number of people killed in violence last month declined by around 15 percent.Lieutenant Colonel Nawzad Abdulqader al-Talabani's murder in ...
Iraqi MPs decided against slashing their salaries and those of ministers on Sunday, opting instead for smaller cuts in a vote in parliament despite government calls for dramatic decreases.Sunday's pay cuts will result in annual savings of at least $4 ...
A snapshot of some of the top leaders in Iraq's new governmentA snapshot of the top leaders of Iraq's incoming government._Prime Minister: Nouri al-Maliki, Shiite, the current premier.Al-Maliki, 60, was first installed as prime minister as a compromise ...
Iraq's former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz is bound to be executed despite international calls to Baghdad to spare him, his son told AFP in Jordan on Saturday."I am not optimistic and I believe that the Iraqi government is turning ...
0 . Iraq's president formally nominated Nouri al-Maliki for a second term as the country's prime minister on Thursday, giving him 30 days to cobble...
Michael Nagle/Getty Images. President of Iraq Jalal Talabani addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters. . . When I...
0 . Lawyers for Tariq Aziz, the longtime international face of Saddam Hussein's regime, said Monday they will seek a presidential pardon to spare ...
AFP PHOTO/Karim SAHIB/FILES. Tariq Aziz. . Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the...
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