Steven Green was found guilty on all 17 counts A jury in the US state of Kentucky has found a former private soldier guilty of the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her and her family. Steven ...Read More
ZURICH - FIFA suspended Iraq from soccer because of political interference in the national federation. Soccer's world governing body says it is "unacceptable" for Iraq's Olympic committee to disband the federation this week for alleged financial and administrative irregularities. FIFA's emergency committee, ...Read More
Iraq's parliament is to meet at the weekend to decide whether to amend a crucial election law vetoed by the vice-president.
Ayad al-Samarie, the parliamentary speaker, said MPs would meet on Saturday to discuss Tariq al-Hashemi's veto and could send it ...Read More
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi vetoed a recently approved election law, throwing a parliamentary vote slated for January into question.
The veto is the latest holdup for the legislation, which election officials say they need in place before national ...Read More
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has called the vice-president's vetoing of a key article in the country's new election law a "dangerous threat to the political process and democracy".
Al-Maliki swiftly hit out at Tariq al-Hashemi's actions on Wednesday and urged ...Read More
Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi vetoed a law crucial to the poll
The general elections planned for January in Iraq have been thrown into doubt by the vetoing of a long-delayed election law by the country's Sunni Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashemi, and ...Read More
BAGHDAD -The top U.S. commander in Iraq says the timetable for an American troop withdrawal is still on track despite a dispute over a key election law that could delay national elections slated for January. Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president vetoed ...Read More
President Barack Obama touched on a variety of topics — including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the upcoming terror trial in New York and more — during an interview with NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd. Here ...Read More
Iraq faces suspension from world soccer if it does not restore the disbanded national federation by Thursday. World governing body FIFA said Tuesday it was "incomprehensible" for Iraq's Olympic committee to dissolve the national soccer authority's ruling board on Monday. Iraqi Olympic ...Read More
ZURICH ? FIFA says Iraq faces suspension from world soccer if it does not restore the disbanded national federation by Thursday. FIFA said Tuesday it was "incomprehensible" for Iraq's Olympic committee to dissolve the national soccer authority's ruling board on Monday. Iraq ...Read More
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Iraq's Kurds are threatening to boycott national elections slated for January unless the allocation of seats in parliament is revised in what they describe as a "fair manner." The office of Kurdistan autonomous regional President Massoud Barzani said ...Read More
The veto threat came a week after lawmakers had passed the long-delayed legislation, paving the way for a national election in January. Any delay in the voting could derail a U.S. plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq, a process ...Read More
Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president threatened Sunday to veto the country's election law unless changes are made giving Iraqis living abroad more guaranteed seats in parliament, throwing the January vote into question. The veto threat comes a week after lawmakers passed ...Read More
Former top executives at Blackwater Worldwide say the U.S. security contractor sent about $1 million to its Iraq office with the intention of paying off officials in the country who were angry about the fatal shootings of 17 civilians by ...Read More
A year ago today, the Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, with the Ad Council, launched a big campaign to welcome new veterans home and help 'em find resources for the transition to civilian life at Community of Veterans. ...Read More
A national report shows that homelessness among veterans is declining in Georgia. The report released Tuesday by the National Alliance to End Homelessness examined the number of military veterans who are now living on the streets.Story continues below ↓ It found there ...Read More
TROY, N.H.—Veterans officials say a Marine from Troy, N.H., has died in Iraq. Victor Bishop, district commander for District One of the American Legion in Troy, attended a candlelight vigil Monday night at the town common for Marine Staff Sgt. Stephen ...Read More
After endless wrangling and a series of missed deadlines, the parliament in Baghdad set aside its divisions to adopt an electoral law without which presidential and parliamentary elections could not have gone ahead. The legislation, backed by 141 MPs with 54 ...Read More
Iraq's parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis that could have delayed the U.S. troop withdrawal. The decision appeared to resolve a key ...Read More
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - He was trained by the military as a psychiatrist to help returning soldiers deal with the mental stress of combat, but by some reports, the horror stories he heard gradually began to change him too. Army Maj. ...Read More
