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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
 AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she had no plans to meet Iranian officials at an international conference in Kuwait next week aimed at stabilizing and developing Iraq. |
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
 UPI: The U.S. military plans to create a buffer zone in the southern part of Sadr City to prevent militants launching rockets into the Green Zone in Baghdad. |
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
 AFP: Iran is likely to be the top challenge for the United States over the next five years, the top US military officer said Tuesday, adding that a way should be found to open a dialogue with Tehran. |
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
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 UPI: Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr Tuesday called on the Iraqi government to reinstate the 1,300 Iraqi security forces fired for desertion during recent fighting.
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
 AFP: The rationale for war in Iraq has morphed from ousting strongman Saddam Hussein to countering Al-Qaeda militants to its latest incarnation -- facing down what officials in the administration of President George W. Bush call the Iranian "threat." |
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
 Reuters: Iraq expects to host more talks between U.S. and Iranian officials on improving Iraq's security but is frustrated by repeated delays, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Sunday.
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
 AP: With al-Qaida's influence diminishing in Iraq, U.S. troops have much work to do in stemming Iranian support for militias, President Bush's national security adviser said Sunday. |
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
 AFP: The chances of the United States "stumbling" into a confrontation with Iran through skirmishes in Iraq "are very low," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
 Reuters: Iraq is prepared to pressure Iran diplomatically to stop supporting violence, while the United States helps the military effort to halt aid to "surrogate" forces, the White House national security adviser said on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
 AFP: A Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks inside Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the Islamic country. |
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
 Washington Times: Tribal leaders in southern Iraq are starting to push back against Iranian-supported militias in Basra, cracking their hold over the economically crucial province, Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker said yesterday at two separate roundtable interviews with reporters. |
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
 CNN: The office of Muqtada al-Sadr accused Iraqi and U.S. forces of attacking Sadr City on Friday, just hours after the Shiite cleric called for calm in the wake of the assassination of one of his top aides in the southern city of Najaf. |
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
 Washington Post: Last week's violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to senior U.S. officials. |
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
 AFP: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki disregarded US advice in launching a campaign in Basra last month that plunged Iraqi troops in fighting without adequate preparation, the US commander in Iraq said Friday. |
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
 New York Times: Iran is engaging in a proxy war with the United States in Iraq, adopting tactics similar to those it has used to back fighters in Lebanon, the United States ambassador to Iraq said Friday. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 AP: Iranian support for militias in Iraq has grown, top U.S. defense leaders said Friday, asserting that recent battles in Basra gave the Iraqis an eye-opening view of Iran's increased negative role there. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 AFP: Iran can never conquer Iraq and is even stirring a Shiite "backlash" there by backing militias fighting the Iraqi government and US-led troops, the US ambassador to Baghdad said here Friday. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 AP: The U.S. ambassador in Iraq says the Bush administration wants to test whether Iran is really interested in talking to the United States about a country of mutual interest — Iraq. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 McClatchy Newspapers: The hours of congressional testimony, the speeches and the press conferences this week were all, nominally, about Iraq. But another, equally explosive question — what to do about Iran — loomed over the presentations by Army Gen. David Petraeus, the American military commander in Iraq, over U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and over U.S. strategy for the Middle East.
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 The Times: President Bush warned Iran yesterday that if it did not stop arming and training Shia militia in Iraq then “America will act to protect our interests and our troops”. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 Washington Post: President Bush ordered an indefinite suspension yesterday of troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer but promised that the war "is not endless" as he braced for a new election-year showdown with Congress over the conflict's economic cost and long-term future. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 New York Times: President Bush directed Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador to Baghdad, to stop in Saudi Arabia on their way back to Iraq from Washington to encourage the Saudis to increase their overall support for Iraq, Mr. Bush said Thursday. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 CNN: Iranian influence on Iraq's ruling parties is a "stark reality," the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq said Thursday, but he said Iranian support for Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias has raised "genuine concern" among leaders in Baghdad. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 New York Times: President Bush said Thursday that the senior United States commander in Iraq could “have all the time he needs” before reducing American forces there any further, but he promised shorter tours for troops and longer breaks for them at home. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Apr. 10 – United States President George W. Bush warned Iran on Thursday that it had a “choice” of either living in peace with Iraq or witnessing American action to defend its interests in the war-torn country. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
 Xinhua: Iran said on Wednesday that the latest report of the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq to the Congress is a justification of Washington's "false strategies and the failures" in Iraq. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
 UPI: The influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said his clerical advisers, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, rejected calls to disband the Mahdi Army. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
 AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Gulf Arab states this month for meetings aimed at stabilizing Iraq and bolstering the Arab-Israeli peace talks, her spokesman said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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Bloomberg: Shiite militia groups backed by Iran are the greatest long-term threat to Iraq's stability, according to Army General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 09 – Iraqi security forces in the town of al-Qasim have discovered the “largest explosively-formed penetrator cache found to date”, the U.S. military announced on Tuesday. |
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