Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Source: [b]BBC News[/b] US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on an unannounced visit. Ms Rice is expected to meet Iraqi leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, to discuss the future of US forces deployed in Iraq. Her arrival comes after 10 ...
PoliBlog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Via the BBC: Rice in surprise visit to Baghdad Ms Rice is holding talks with Iraqi leaders including Prime Minister Nouri Maliki during the unannounced visit. Has there been a visit by a major US government official to Iraq that hasn’t been a surprise? And what does that day about the security situation (at [...]
Egypt News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lebanon’s prime minister has met his Iraqi counterpart in the first visit to Baghdad by a Lebanese leader since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Fouad Siniora’s trip comes a week after Jordan’s King Abdullah became the first Arab head of state to visit since 2003. Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki’s office said the talks covered trade [...]
OTB News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A university dean and a lawmaker, both Sunnis, are arrested by elite counter-terrorism troops, and a government employee is killed. Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s office denies deploying them. Predawn raids by elite [...]
LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A university dean and a lawmaker, both Sunnis, are arrested by elite counter-terrorism troops, and a government employee is killed. Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's office denies deploying them. Predawn raids by elite Iraqi forces today resulted in the fatal shooting of a government employee and the arrest of two prominent Sunni Arab Muslims, witnesses and officials said.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on an unannounced visit. Rice is expected to meet Iraqi leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, to discuss the future of US forces deployed in Iraq. Her arrival comes after 10 months of difficult negotiations on the US military presence in Iraq between Washington and Baghdad. Reports suggest a compromise draft...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Ms Rice is expected to meet Iraqi leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, to discuss the future of US forces deployed in Iraq.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
By Crispin Thorold BBC News in Baghdad It may have only lasted four hours and have been cloaked in secrecy but King Abdullah's visit to Baghdad was a trip of great symbolism. The Jordanian monarch became the first leader of an Arab state to visit Iraq since the US invasion in 2003. King Abdullah met the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, and the vice-president Adel Abdul Mahdi. The Iraqi...
