BBC News: Father wins Iraq inquest review
July 23rd, 2009
The father of a TA soldier killed in Iraq six years ago wins permission to challenge a coroner’s decision not to hold a full investigation.
MercuryNews.com: Obama presses Iraqi leader on reconciliation
July 23rd, 2009
President Barack Obama said he pressed Iraq’s prime minister on Wednesday to make room in his government and security forces for all ethnic and religious groups to prevent a resurgence of the violence
The Miami Herald: U.S. Embassy in Baghdad overstaffed, watchdog reports
July 23rd, 2009
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Embassy in Iraq, the government's largest overseas mission, is significantly overstaffed and needs to be downsized to reflect the reduced American role in the country, ac
The Miami Herald: Obama to work to lift UN sanctions on Iraq
July 22nd, 2009
President Barack Obama says he is committed to working with Iraq to get the U.N. to lift international sanctions that the world body imposed on the country after the 1991 Gulf War.
smh.com: US, Iraq hail new era of friendship
July 22nd, 2009
President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hailed the seeds of a growing cooperation between their nations, pledging that out of the fires of war a new friendship would emerge.
9news.com: Obama says U.S. on schedule to leave Iraq
July 22nd, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that despite continuing violence in Iraq, the U.S. is on schedule to remove all troops by the end of 2011.
The Miami Herald: Obama says transition in Iraq going well
July 22nd, 2009
President Barack Obama says there's been good cooperation between U.S. and Iraqi forces following the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraqi cities, despite what he describes as a "di
The Miami Herald: Obama says US will keep pledge to leave Iraq
July 22nd, 2009
President Barack Obama says violence will continue in Iraq, but that the insurgents will fail.
Suntimes.com: Panel approves $128B for Iraq, Afghanistan
July 22nd, 2009
WASHINGTON — The total cost of the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would top $1 trillion under a Pentagon funding bill approved by a key House panel
smh.com: Five Iranian pilgrims shot dead in Iraq
July 22nd, 2009
Gunmen shot dead five Iranian pilgrims, including a woman, travelling on a bus near the restive Iraqi city of Baquba on Wednesday, police said.