By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 31 August 2006 watch Iraq Tourism report In tourism promotional ads, children are playing in the water Recently the Kurdish region of Iraq launched an international advertising campaign called The Other Iraq. The campaign...
By David Gollust State Department 29 August 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a war veterans group Tuesday that a premature U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq would cause immeasurable harm to U.S. interests. Domestic political pressure for...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 22 August 2006 Israeli military authorities on Tuesday charged the Palestinian parliament speaker, who is also a leader of Hamas, with membership in an outlawed organization. The action comes amid renewed clashes between Isra...
By Scott Stearns White House 19 August 2006 President Bush says U.S. forces in Iraq are making Americans safer. Opposition Democrats say it is time to start bringing those troops home. President Bush (file photo) President Bush says the Middle East...
By Jim Malone Washington 07 August 2006 The war in Iraq is playing a central role in the re-election battle of one of the country's best-known Democrats, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Lieberman faces a tough primary challenge from fellow...
By Greg Flakus Houston 29 June 2006 Samir Sumaida'a Iraq's ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida'ie, spoke at the final luncheon of the US-Arab Economic Forum in Houston Wednesday, calling on neighboring nations to give more assistance to h...
By Al Pessin Washington 28 July 2006 US Army soldiers in Iraq(file photo) The top U.S. general in Iraq had hoped to be able to recommend what he called a fairly significant reduction in U.S. troops in the country this year. Instead, on Thursday Defe...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 23 July 2006 Iraqis gather around the site of a bomb blast, in the predominantly Shiite area of Sadr City, Baghdad, July 23, 2006 More than 60 Iraqis have been killed after bomb attacks in a busy market and outside a...
By Paula Wolfson White House 26 June 2006 The White House says a plan for a major U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq has been drafted by top commanders, but emphasizes it is one of several options under consideration. ---------- George W. Bush The with...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, D.C. 14 July 2006 watch report on Iraq The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, says the diverse ethnic and sectarian communities in Iraq are engaged in an unprecedented discussion about their national identity. B...