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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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 Boston Globe - By Saleh al-Mutlaq: There is so much tragedy in Iraq that some stories go underreported - eclipsed by other negative news. This one requires attention: Inside Iraq, 20 kilometers west of the Iranian border and 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province, stands Camp Ashraf where members of the Iranian opposition - known as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq - have lived for more than two decades.
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
 AP: Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general who led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
 AFP: General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, has been named to head US forces in the Middle East, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
 Washington Post: Iraq's neighbors failed on Tuesday to commit themselves to any immediate strengthening of diplomatic or economic support for the Baghdad government, but agreed to hold their next gathering, six months from now, in the Iraqi capital. |
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
 AFP: A US general said on Sunday that the increasingly sophisticated attacks carried out by Shiite extremists in Iraq were evidence they were getting extra aid from Iranian groups in the country. |
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
 New York Times: Iraqi soldiers took control of the last bastions of the cleric Moktada al-Sadr’s militia in Basra on Saturday, and Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad strongly endorsed the Iraqi government’s monthlong military operation against the fighters. |
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran accused U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of "Iranophobia" on Sunday for trying to blame Tehran for Iraq's security problems. |
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
 AFP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice next week follows through on a "diplomatic surge" to involve its Arab allies in rebuilding Iraq, as part of US efforts to counter Iran's sway there. |
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
 AFP: Iran lashed out at the US military on Saturday for carrying out air strikes in Baghdad's Sadr City, the bastion of Shiite militias Washington says are backed by Tehran-based groups. |
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
 AP: Iran's U.N. Mission is rejecting allegations by U.S. officials that the country is supporting the insurgency in Iraq. It calls the claims "unfounded" and "baseless." |
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
 AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has no plans to meet Iran's foreign minister at a conference of Iraq's neighbors next week, amid increasing U.S. complaints about Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents. |
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.S. chief of naval operations on Thursday urged the navy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to communicate better with other vessels to avoid incidents in the Gulf. |
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
 Reuters: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday she would press Iraq's Arab neighbors hard next week to do more to support Baghdad's government and shield it from Iran's "nefarious influences." |
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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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