USA Today | Premier's Actions in Iraq Raise US Concerns New York Times BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has moved swiftly to consolidate power in advance of the American military withdrawal, offering a glimpse of how Iraq's post-American identity may take shape ... Obama, Maliki Hail 'New Chapter' for Iraq Without US Troops Obama: US closing chapter, not door, on Iraq US, Iraq Find Gaps in Relationship |
Bloomberg | Iraq Can Lead the Arab World If It Gets Oil-Production Policy Right: View Bloomberg By the Editors Tue Dec 13 00:00:34 GMT 2011 Comments US President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had many important issues to discuss yesterday in Washington: the impending withdrawal of the last US troops from Iraq, ... Iraq Can Lead the Arab World If It Gets Oil Policy Right: View Debt and graft slow Iraq on path to progress Oil power struggle as US leaves |
CBC.ca | NATO to stop training Iraq army when US troops leave Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO will end its seven-year troop training mission in Iraq at the end of December, the alliance said Monday, a move that will coincide with the withdrawal of US troops from the country. ... NATO to End Iraq Training Mission This Month After Talks Fail NATO will end Iraq training mission this year due to differences over legal ... NATO to end training mission in Iraq |
ABC News | Blackwater Renames Itself, And Wants to Go Back to Iraq ABC News 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. (Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo) The private security firm once known as Blackwater, which was forced out of Iraq ... US in Iraq: Soldiers out; Blackwater in? Once called Blackwater, firm changes name again Blackwater 3.0: Rebranded 'Academi' Wants Back in Iraq |
Iraq War vet guilty in child porn case Chicago Tribune Joshua Price, 27, was an infantryman who saw "direct combat" in the Iraq War and returned home with post-traumatic stress disorder, his attorney, Eric Mitchell, told a Will County judge. In March, the Joliet Junior College student left behind a flash ... |
Los Angeles Times | Obama welcomes era of 'equal partnership' with Iraq Los Angeles Times (Carolyn Kaster, Associated Press / December 13, 2011) By Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times With the last US troops set to depart Iraq, President Obama on Monday welcomed a new phase of "equal partnership" with the Iraqi government, even as both sides ... |
AsiaOne | Iraq war widened gulf between military, US society AsiaOne WASHINGTON - The Iraq war has exposed a growing gap between the small fraction of the American population that fights for the flag and the rest of society that has been virtually untouched by the conflict. Despite the flying of the Stars and Stripes ... Hopes and prayers for Iraq War in Iraq Almost Over; Cost $1 Trillion |
Iraq war vet rescued from frigid Joliet river Chicago Sun-Times JOLIET — An Iraq war veteran was rescued by firefighters and police Monday after he allegedly jumped into the Des Plaines River. The Jefferson Street bridgetender and passing ... |
Fars News Agency | White House talks on Iraq's Camp Ashraf draw protesters CNN Masked demonstrators rally Monday outside the White House to protest plans to close a refugee camp in Iraq. Washington (CNN) -- Several prominent Americans joined Iranian opposition activists Monday in a noisy demonstration outside the White House, ... Bay Area Iranian-Americans fear forced closure of Iraq's Camp Ashraf will lead ... The noose tightens around Iranian refugees at Camp Ashraf UN-Iraq calls on Europe to take Iranian camp members |
Fox News | Exit war with Iraq, enter war with Iran? Washington Post 5 news article “Marines to seek old role after exiting Iraq, Afghanistan,” a Marine is quoted as asking Marine Corps Commandant James F. Amos, “Who do you want us to fight next, sir?” I hope the answer was, “No one.” Barbara Pearson, Silver Spring. Obama appeals to Iran to return downed US spy drone Obama demands Tehran return US drone downed in Iran OBAMA: “WE ASKED” IRAN TO GIVE BACK DOWNED DRONE |