Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
A large crowd watched the final but league President Andrew Ramsay wasn't part of it as he had zoomed out to Canada a fortnight previously and found himself unable to zoom back as planned. Vice president Bob Bryce and secretary Jim Muir shared prADVERTISEMENTesentation duties and brought the curtain down on the 2008 league activities.The line-up in the Pairs was a top-of-the-bill attraction...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
The BBC's Jim Muir looks at the growing phenomenon of Iraq's female suicide bombers
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
There have been similar major operations in Diyala province in the past but they have all been so loudly heralded that insurgents had plenty of time to escape, regroup and stage a return later, BBC Baghdad correspondent Jim Muir says.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
As the last US "surge" troops leave Iraq, attention is now turning to the question of the complete withdrawal of US combat troops, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By Jim Muir BBC News, Baghdad Security in Iraq has improved since the increase in US troopsThe last of the American combat brigades brought in last year for the US troop "surge" has now left Iraq. The announcement coincided with a visit by the Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, bringing to a head the almost feverish interest, both in Iraq and America, in the issue of US...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... especially significant ahead of provincial elections that are expected later this year, the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says. The pertinent questions are how significant and in what ways? Is this the AF's way of hedging its electoral bets by reclaiming the reins of government ahead of the elections (it's good to count the ballots ya know!)? Or is this the culmination of some type of quid-pro-quo...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... especially significant ahead of provincial elections that are expected later this year, the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says. Crackdown on militants The move is also a sign of changed and considerably improved times, our correspondent says. The Accord Front's main reason for leaving the cabinet last August was that the government and security apparatus were dominated by Shia factions with...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The BBC's Jim Muir looks at the issues around the failure to achieve a deadline for scaling down US forces in Iraq.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
By Jim Muir BBC News, Baghdad The UN mandate allowing US troops in Iraq expires at the end of 2008US presidential contender Barack Obama has repeatedly seized on statements attributed to Iraqi leaders to support his call for a troop withdrawal deadline. The key statement cited by Mr Obama and others was made by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki last Monday in his address to Arab ambassadors...
