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Iraq parliament to reconvene July 13: FM

AFP: Iraq's parliament will reconvene on July 13, the last day before a constitutional deadline, the country's foreign minister said on Thursday, in a...

Baghdad suicide attack and bombs kill 39: officials

AFP: A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-filled belt targeted Shiite pilgrims and murdered 28 people in Baghdad on Wednesday while 11 more were killed...

AP Interview: Odierno eyes UN forces for Iraq

AP: The top American military commander in Iraq said Tuesday that U.N. peacekeeping forces may need to replace departing U.S. troops in the nation's...

Biden, in Iraq, urges leaders to form government

New York Times: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. drew an analogy to the signers of the Declaration of Independence on Sunday in exhorting...

Biden to nudge Iraq on sluggish efforts to form a government

Los Angeles Times: As the U.S. prepares to exit Iraq, the vice president arrives in Baghdad for talks with election front-runners Nouri Maliki and...

Pope urges quick action for new Iraqi government

AFP: Pope Benedict XVI on Friday called for quick action to form a new Iraqi government to improve security and said special attention was...

Iraq rivals meet to bring premiership row to head

AFP: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his arch rival for the premiership Iyad Allawi met on Tuesday, aides said, in a bid to...

Iraq rivals mull meeting to bring premiership row to a head

AFP: Iraq's rivals for the premiership, incumbent Nuri al-Maliki and former premier Iyad Allawi, are mulling meeting face to face in a bid to...

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Political Prisoner Fathollah Avari Executed in Hamedan

In the early hours of Tuesday, June 2, the death sentence of Fathollah Avari, one of the protesters who...

IRGC Attacks Kuwait and Bahrain, Hezbollah and Israel Clash

While in the early hours of Wednesday, June 3, local time, Kuwait reported intercepting missile and drone attacks, air...

Iranian Authorities Dismiss Professors, Harass Dismissed Faculty Members at University

On March 31, the state-run ILNA news agency published a report on the dismissal of university professors across the...

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IRGC Attacks Kuwait and Bahrain, Hezbollah and Israel Clash

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