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Iranian Band Shams Ensemble Plays US Shows to Promote Freedom
Shams Ensemble, a musical troupe that features music drawn from Persia's distant past and has become a rallying point of overseas support for the Green Revolution in Iran, begins a three-concert tour in the US starting Sept. 27 in San Francisco. Their...
Tags: shams ensemble, iran, iranian revolution, green revolution, iran revolution, freedom, justice, san francisco, california, music, hope, passion, teresa rodriguez williamson, evan karp, change, rumi, persian, brazilian, kurdish, huffington post, tango diva, davies symphony
Iraqi parliament approves US security pact
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
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Iraq in Transition Iraq's parliament has approved a security pact with the United States. The pact allows US troops to stay in Iraq for three more years. But a bloc of lawmakers loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has rejected the vote. Lawmakers...
Tags: parliament, iraq, Iraqi Parliament, government, troops, kurdish, war, Baghdad, security pact, security agreement
Iraqi parliament delays vote on security pact
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Iraq in Transition Intense dealmaking among Iraq's political factions has delayed a vote on a security pact with the US. The proposed deal would allow American forces to stay through 2011 under tight Iraqi supervision. The Bush administration still expects...
Tags: iraq, parliament, long-debated u.s. security pact, u.s, kurdish, New Iraqi, Iraq-U.S, troops, violence, sunni
Female al-Qaeda fighters surrender
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility The women apparently surrendered so they did not have to carry out suicide bomb attacks on behalf of the militant group. At least two dozen female suicide bombers have struck this year, mostly in Iraq's volatile Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killing...
Tags: iraq, troops, Baghdad, Iraqi, government, U.S, kurdish, roadside bomb, central baghdad, Parliament
Saturday: 12 Iraqis Killed, Mass Grave Found
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility At least 12 Iraqi deaths were reported today, none in Baghdad or Mosul where bombings occur on a daily basis. Ten of the dead were found in a mass grave south of the capital. Meanwhile, a parliamentary vote on a U.S.-Iraqi security pact is now set for...
Tags: iraq, parliament, wound, official, kurdish, mass grave
Iraqi premier defends security pact proposal
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went on national television Tuesday to defend a divisive pact giving U.S. forces three more years on the ground in his nation as opponents reacted coolly to the plan, which is expected to go before parliament today.
Tags: iraq, troops, cabinet, Iraq Troops, Aswat al-Iraq, shiite, government, insurgents, kurdish, U.S
Parliament may scuttle Iraq pact
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility First, the pact states that all U.S. forces should withdraw from Iraq by December 31, 2011. Second, American troops are to pull out from Iraqi cities by the end of June 2009. Third, the U.S. has agreed it will not use Iraqi soil to raid or attack a neighbouring...
Tags: iraq, cabinet, obama, troops, Iraqi, US-Iraq, sunni, government, war, kurdish
Iraqi Cabinet approves security pact with US
BAGHDAD – Iraq's Cabinet on Sunday approved a security pact with the United States that will allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three years after their U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year. The decision followed months of difficult...
Tags: U.S, army, troops, Iraq, war, Bush, cabinet, parliament, government, Sunni, insurgents, Shiite, Kurdish
Iraq to wait for US pact response
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Iraqi government is expected to receive a response from the US regarding proposed changes to a security pact after Tuesday's presidential elections, officials say. Ali al-Dabbagh, a government spokesman, said on Sunday suggested that the US response...
Tags: iraq, government, kurdish, troops, Iraqi, World › Iraq, U.S, cabinet, security pact, Kurdistan Democratic Party
Fadlallah slams Washington's SOFA push
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Lebanon's senior cleric Seyyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah has condemned Washington's disrespect for Iraq's independence and sovereignty...The agreement would determine a legal framework for the presence of US forces in the country after their UN mandate...
Tags: iraq, troops, Iraqi Army, u.s, Iraq-U.S, Iran-Iraq, US-Iraq, government, kurdish, war
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