News Source: 7days
| 14 days ago
The man at the front of a new political movement in Iraq, which aims to tackle corrupt-ion and violence in the country, was in Dubai this week. Ayad Jamal Aldin who is leading the Ahrar party, has been campaigning for a new secular Iraq since 2003...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| 14 days ago
Iraqi province must from now on be accompanied to local government offices by male chaperones to protect their moral fibre, politicians in the region said today. "All 28 members of the Wasit provincial council voted in favour of this decision," said
News Source: The Economist
| about 1 month ago
Parliament has taken months debating a bill to pave the way to elections on January 16th, though at least 296 parties have declared their intention to compete at the polls. Yet outside the chamber many members say they want the same things...Shias
News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
The mainly Shia National Accord Movement and the Sunni National Dialogue Front announced in a statement on Saturday that they will now form the new Iraqi National Movement. The new group said that its aim is to create a political environment
News Source: Times of Oman
| about 1 month ago
Politicians from Iraq's Sunni Arab minority have failed to forge a single alliance to fight January's general election but, with the Shiite majority also split, analysts say the vote may herald a welcome end to confessional politics. The last
News Source: The Guardian
| 3 months ago
The evil bombings continue and so do the kidnappings and terror but Iraq is slowly coming out of the woods. It has already shown that the region is able to produce more than the one-man shows that we have in many Arab countries today. Iraqi's current
News Source: The Guardian
| 4 months ago
The US president, George Bush, gives his "mission accomplished" speech after landing in a small plane on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific ocean...Paul Bremer, a veteran US ambassador, is appointed Iraq 's civil administrator and charged with
News Source: The Nation
| 4 months ago
You'd never know that the prime minister of a nation occupied by 130,000 US troops is in the United States, but he is. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is in Washington to meet President Obama and other US officials today and tomorrow, but the press