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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
 VOA: Arabic-language media report that Iraq's government has accused Iran of siphoning Iraqi oil from wells near their shared border. |
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 |
 Reuters: Attacks using Iranian-made roadside bombs in a key part of Baghdad rose in January to the highest level in a year, the U.S. military said on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
 AP: Iran is stronger today because of the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the American ambassador to the United Nations said Friday. |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
 AFP: Life is slowly returning to normal in the miserable grimy streets of Baghdad's Fadel district, heartland of Iraq's Sunni "resistance." |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush on Thursday warned that a hasty pull-out from Iraq would ruin fragile progress there and convince extremists and Iran that the United States is a "paper tiger." |
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki said on Monday that Tehran had raised concerns with the United States over planned talks on the security of war-ravaged Iraq. |
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
 AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a historic trip to Iraq sometime before March 19, state media reported Monday, the first such visit ever by an Iranian leader. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran is to blame for the delay in holding more talks with the United States about Iraq's security and it is unclear when the discussions will be held, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
 Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad, Iraq's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, a landmark trip that would make him the first leader of Iran to visit its former foe. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
 New York Times: American-backed Sunni militias who have fought Sunni extremists to a standstill in some of Iraq’s bloodiest battlegrounds are being hit with a wave of assassinations and bomb attacks, threatening a fragile linchpin of the military’s strategy to pacify the nation. |
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Sunday, 20 January 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.S. military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being smuggled into Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraqi militias. |
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
 AP: They know him as the sheik. But what that really means in this Sunni town is a bit of everything: community leader, public works supervisor, agricultural planner, militia captain. |
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.S. military in Iraq is seeing an upswing in the number of roadside bomb attacks using deadly armor-piercing munitions linked to Iran, top defense officials said on Friday. |
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
 AFP: US soldiers have already been targeted in the first two weeks of January by as many suspected Iranian explosives as in all of December, the US defense chief said Friday. |
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
 AFP: Iran is still training and funding insurgents attacking coalition troops in Iraq, the second highest US general serving in the country said Thursday. |
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
 AFP: Iran said on Wednesday it would take part in a conference of Middle East and Western powers to be held in Kuwait in April to debate security in war-ravaged Iraq. |
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
 AFP: The commander of US forces in Iraq said on Wednesday that Iran was continuing to train militants despite Tehran's pledge to cut all support for the insurgency. |
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
 CNN: Attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq with bombs believed linked to Iran -- known as explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) -- have risen sharply in January after several months of decline, according to the top U.S. commander in Iraq.
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
 Sunday Times: The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps slipped into the green zone of Baghdad last month to press Tehran’s hardline position over the terms of the current talks with American officials, it was claimed last week. |
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
 AFP: US President George W. Bush on Saturday called on Syria to cut the "flow of terrorists" into Iraq and on Iran to stop supporting militias that attack US forces and Iraqis. |
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
 Middle East Times: The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Wednesday designated four individuals and one entity under Executive Order 13438 for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and the government of Iraq. |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
 Washington Post: The United States yesterday slapped sanctions on a top Iranian general and three exiled Iraqis based in Iran and Syria for fomenting violence in Iraq, as President Bush lashed out again at Tehran for last weekend's showdown between U.S. and Iranian naval vessels. |
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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AP: The Bush administration moved Wednesday to financially clamp down on a general in Iran's powerful military wing, a Syrian TV station and three other individuals accused of helping insurgents in Iraq. |
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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Washington Times: The spokesman for Gen. David H. Petraeus said that a quote he e-mailed to The Washington Times for the article in yesterday's paper headlined "Iran no longer aids Iraq militants" was not clear and therefore misinterpreted. |
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Saturday, 29 December 2007 |
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New York Times: The top American military commander in Iraq said Saturday that violent attacks in the country had fallen by 60 percent since June, but cautioned that security gains were “tenuous” and “fragile,” requiring political and economic progress to cement them. |
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Saturday, 29 December 2007 |
 Reuters: Iraq will send a delegation to neighboring Iran in the coming days to seek slight changes to the agreement that defines the two countries' borders, Iraq's deputy foreign minister Labeed Abbawi said on Saturday. |
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
 UPI: Iraqi oil officials and business leaders are in Iran for a weeklong dialogue on future cooperation as cross-country oil trade continues. |
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
 Reuters: Iraq said on Thursday it had not repudiated a 32-year-old border treaty with Iran, despite a declaration by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that the accord over which the countries waged a decade of war was now void. |
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
 New York Times: Four members of an American-backed neighborhood watch group in Diyala Province were killed Wednesday when a house they were raiding exploded, the police said. |
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
 Washington Post: Posted at the door of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's office recently, a flier denounced the arrests of his followers. Up and down the barricaded street, soldiers and policemen loyal to his Shiite rivals stood sentry, some in tan armored personnel carriers, questioning anyone they suspected of links to the populist cleric. |
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