Iraq Politics News

There is little reporting of these types of attacks any more. US personnel are still in danger in Iraq even though there are far fewer casualties since they are no longer stationed in cities and do not patrol routinely. Excerpts...

A one-paragraph notice filed on Friday says only that prosecutors have asked that the case against Nicholas Slatten be dropped. The government's detailed request to the court was filed with the judge and with the defendant, but was not made...

Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday plan to take another shot at ending the impasse over a proposed election law -- a political crisis sparked by the veto of a newly passed measure this week by one of the country's leaders. Leaders...

The demonstrators have called on Sunni Arab vice president Tariq al-Hashemi to reverse the veto against a key election legislation voted by a majority of the Iraqi parliament. The protestors also denounced the return of former Baathists in the upcoming...

In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan , the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools...

Johann Enslin, Hardus Greeff, Callie Scheepers and Andr� Durandt were abducted outside the Iraqi capital in December 2006...They were working for security company Safenet at the time of their disappearance. Enslin's wife Marie on Thursday said Safenet withdrew all its...

In talks likely to result in millions of dollars in penalties, executives from the company, now known as Xe Services, are negotiating with government regulators over years of violations of export laws. According to government officials and former company employees,...

A human skull, believed to be "reasonably old", has been found on a Northland beach, police said today. The skull was found in sand dunes in Glinks Gully, near Dargaville, and the matter would be referred to a pathologist, they...