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Parliament Speaker Iyad al-Samarrai ruled out the possibility of holding parliamentary elections in January because the parliament is yet to decide how to conduct the vote, AFP reported. "The (election) commission announced it (the vote) would be held on January...

In the gardens of the living and the dead, the war goes on; not so much with enthusiasm as with resignation. It is just after dawn Friday, which is the first day of Id al-Adha, literally “the Great Feast,” celebrated...

Throughout the day, they poured into the mausoleum in Saddam's hometown of Awja where the ex-president and his two sons, Uday and Qusay, are buried. Saddam was actually hanged on 30 December 2006, which marked that year the first day...

In the second parliamentary elections of Iraq’s new constitutional order, slated for January 2010, the stakes are high...Will a lame-duck government, the political flux of governing coalition formation, and the planned drawdown of over half of the United States’ troops...

The fate of Iraq's newly revised election law again hinges on the approval of the country's Sunni Arab vice president, who is under pressure to sign the much-contested plan. The new bill has been approved by the other two members...

It's Saturday night at the Alwiyah Club, and 21-year-old Sarah al-Kimackchy is doing the hip thing -- playing bingo. The streets outside still might not be as safe as they once were, and the occasional deadly bombing still rips through...

its a good thing our troops have another war to go to. there isnt much to come home to here but unemployment and misery...Examiner Reader says: Its been two weeks since Obama has taken office...I smell a payoff... motown67 says:...

Iraq's prime minister on Thursday warned that a political dispute likely to postpone January elections was a threat to security, but said American troops would not have to delay their timetable for leaving because of the vote. "Linking the withdrawal...

00 am (0800 GMT) on Thursday, ripping through a crowded market in Mussayib, 60 kilometers (35 miles) south of Baghdad. The explosions left at least three men killed and 28 people wounded, including two women and two children, AFP quoted...