Iraqi PM: US aid needed to battle al-Qaida
By LARA JAKES Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, walks with the House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., right, and the committee’s chairman Rep. Ed Royce,…
Nouri al-Maliki
IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER CRITICIZES SYRIA STRIKE PLAN
By ADAM SCHRECK Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, left, meets with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari, right, after arriving at the Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013.…
IRAQI OFFICIALS, MILITANTS WARN OF THREAT TO US
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ADAM SCHRECK FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, members of an Iraqi Shiite fighters militant group called Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhadaa,…
A LOOK AT SYRIA DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
By The Associated Press In this citizen journalism image provided by The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a…
IRAQI PM SAYS HIS COUNTRY ON HIGH ALERT OVER SYRIA
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN A Baghdad municipality worker cleans, while people and security forces inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.…
IRAQI PREMIER VOWS TO CONTINUE SECURITY OPERATIONS
By SAMEER N. YACOUB A man inspects the damage at a cafe following a suicide bombing in Balad, 60 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013.…
KERRY IN AFGHANISTAN TO PROD KARZAI ON FUTURE TIES
By MATTHEW LEE U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry straps himself into a helicopter as he prepares to fly out of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Sunday, March 24, 2013.…
SYRIAN REBEL MILITARY LEADER REJECTS NEW PM
By BEN HUBBARD and JAMAL HALABY In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian doctors treat an injured man who was wounded at the Eman Mosque…