By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 13 July 2006 U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, sought to emphasize the positive when he offered an assessment of the situation in Iraq before a congressional committee Thursday. But he said sectarian violence re...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 22 June 2006 Over the past two weeks, lawmakers have engaged in one of the most significant periods of debate on Iraq since U.S. and coalition forces ousted former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in early 2003. The debate...
By Jim Malone Washington 21 June 2006 Iraq is expected to be a central issue in the November congressional elections in the United States. As VOA national correspondent Jim Malone reports from Washington, both major political parties are shaping the...
By Jim Malone Washington 11 July 2006 Opposition Democrats hope to seize control of one or both chambers of the U.S. Congress in the November mid-term elections, in large part because of voter dismay over the situation in Iraq. In the first of a two...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 30 May 2006 A car bomb in Baghdad's Tahariyat Square which targeted an American convoy, setting the Humvee on fire, left, in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, May 29, 2006 The U.S. Defense Department has released an unclassified version of...
By Michael Bowman Washington 25 May 2006 Tony Blair (left) and President Bush President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have hailed Iraq's achievement of democratic rule and urged resolve in the face of continued sectarian violence in the...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 19 June 2006 In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the insurgency wracking other parts of the country seems remote. In a region that has long attended to its own affairs, people are looking to the future. In the cit...
By Scott Stearns White House 17 June 2006 President Bush is promising more help for Iraq's new government, following his surprise trip to Baghdad this past week. Opposition Democrats say the president is not moving fast enough to get U.S. troops hom...
16 June 2006 Hoshyar Zebari Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says the role of Iraq's neighbors is key to bringing stability to his nation. But he says that, so far, most of them have not been very helpful. The Iraqi foreign minister made his co...
By David Gollust State Department 14 June 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended Bush administration policy in Iraq, and American engagement abroad, in an address to a major Christian group. She told the convention of Southern Baptists in...