Source: Asharq Alawsat
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his feared Mehdi Army on Thursday to maintain its six-month ceasefire as members of the militia clashed with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad.Shi’ite Sadr’s spokesman Salah al-Ubaidi said the ceasefire, which expires later this month and has been vital to cutting violence in Iraq, […]
By CHRISTOPHER CHESTER
Associated Press Writer
Source: Breitbart.com
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi Arab lawmakers from rival sects joined forces Sunday to criticize what they claim is overreaching by the Kurds, alleging the powerful U.S.-backed minority’s go-it-alone style in oil and other major issues threatens national unity.
The 145 Shiite, Sunni and other legislators signaled their opposition to Kurdish ambitions […]
Amid growing pressure ahead of the January 30 release of the Winograd Report investigating the Second Lebanon War, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ruled out on Monday any possibility that he would let political maneuvering shorten his tenure.
In closed conversations, Olmert reacted to Labor chairman Ehud Barak’s hints that he was seriously considering quitting and reports […]
BAGHDAD, (AP) -Iraqi security forces were on high alert Sunday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s execution.
Iraq army Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said security forces were “ready and prepared for any emergencies that might happen.”
In Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, hundreds […]
By Walter Pincus
Monday, December 31, 2007; Page A13 Buried in the latest Defense Department quarterly report on Iraq is the disclosure that the Baghdad government is now responsible for setting the size of its security forces, and that it has authorized a level of 550,000 military and police forces — an increase of more […]
ISTANBUL — Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq have killed more than 150 rebels and hit more than 200 targets in recent days, the Turkish military said Tuesday, countering Kurdish claims that only a handful of people were killed in the attacks.
The air raids, on Dec. 16 and 22, were the first large-scale […]
ISTANBUL — Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdish rebel camps in northern Iraq on Wednesday, the Turkish military said, acknowledging its second cross-border airstrike this week and its third in recent days.
The warplanes shelled eight locations in the Zap region of northern Iraq, across Turkey’s southeastern border, the army said in a statement. It gave no information […]
Schoolgirls Told to Wear Scarves, Under Threat of Death
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, December 13, 2007; Page A01
BAGHDAD — On the first day of class, two male teenagers entered a girls’ high school in the Tobji neighborhood, clutching AK-47 assault rifles. The young Shiite fighters handed the principal a handwritten note and ordered […]
