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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 29 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will make a state visit to Iran in the coming days, Iranian state media reported.
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
 AP: U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker is criticizing Iran for trying to block a new security agreement between the United States and Iraq. |
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 27 - Coalition forces captured five suspected proxy agents of Iran Saturday morning in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad, the United States military announced.
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Saturday, 27 September 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: Iran is successfully blocking US efforts to secure a long-term troop presence in Iraq, the American ambassador to Baghdad has conceded. |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 Los Angeles Times: U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Thursday accused Iran of "pushing very hard" to derail a security agreement that would authorize American troops to remain in Iraq past Dec. 31. |
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 |
 AFP: Groups of Shiite extremists trained in Iran are returning to Iraq with plans to bomb high-profile targets, the chief of Dhi Qar province's police said Saturday. |
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
 New York Times: A Sunni Arab leader of a citizen patrol group in Baghdad who had been a proponent of reconciliation in his neighborhood was assassinated over the weekend. |
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Saturday, 13 September 2008 |
 AP: A bomb concealed in a kiosk used to sell ice killed four people and wounded nine others Saturday at a security checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraqi authorities said. |
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.N. representative in Baghdad, speaking in the Iranian capital, on Wednesday called on Iraq's neighbours to play a constructive role by respecting Iraqi sovereignty and working towards its stability. |
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
 AP: Home barely long enough to knock the Iraq dust off his boots, Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno is returning to Baghdad to command a slowly shrinking force in possibly the final phase of American combat action. |
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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: As Baghdad and Washington officials try to hammer out a final agreement laying out the terms of a continued American military presence in Iraq, Iranian officials have ratcheted up pressure on their Iraqi counterparts to reject a deal. |
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
 Reuters: Iraq's once formidable Mehdi Army appears to be bowing to orders to lay down arms, but it is yet unclear if Shi'ite fighters are preparing another offensive with Iranian help, a U.S. intelligence official said. |
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
 AP: A senior official in Nouri al-Maliki's government was in custody Thursday suspected of ties to Iranian-backed Shiite militias and plotting a June bombing that killed 10 people, including four Americans, Iraqi authorities said. |
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
 AP: A former security adviser to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in comments published Tuesday that he had quit his job so he can freely speak about what he called the danger Iran poses in the Middle East. |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
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AP: President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki spoke Friday by secure video as work on a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by 2011 continued. |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
 AFP: From "surrender date" to "aspirational time horizon," US President George W. Bush seemed poised Friday to seal a reversal in Iraq policy by accepting a target withdrawal date. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
 AP: Militant Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr plans to make a series of short visits to Iraq starting within weeks but has decided to make Iran his home base for years to come, a key aide says. |
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
 Reuters: A top U.S. military commander said on Monday he expected Shi'ite militia leaders who fled to Iran for training and equipment to return to Iraq soon to try to foment instability. |
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 17 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will make a state visit to Iran within the next 10 days, Iranian state media reported.
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: A senior American officer said that captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq had confirmed suspicions that members of Iran's elite Quds force and members of the Lebanese militia Hizbollah were training their fellow Shia Muslims from Iraq to create more so-called "special groups" of fighters. |
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
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 AFP: Iraqi assassination squads are being trained in Iran by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah for attacks in Iraq, a US military official said Friday.
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
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CNN: Iraqi Shia fighters are now been trained inside Iran as assassination squads, the U.S. military has told the Iraqi government. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
 AP: Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned from captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Reuters: A deal allowing U.S. forces to stay in Iraq beyond the end of this year is not aimed at keeping military pressure on Iran, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said on Thursday during a visit to Tehran. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
 AFP: Nine suspected members of a pro-Iranian insurgent group have been arrested in a predominantly Sunni area of the Iraqi capital, the US military said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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New York Times: As he prepares to become the senior American commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said Monday that over the next year he hoped to recommend significant reductions in the number of American troops stationed there. He acknowledged, however, that political developments — like the recent delay in scheduling regional elections — would influence the troop reductions as much as the level of attacks. |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
 Reuters: A senior Iranian diplomat on Wednesday rejected U.S. charges that Iran was trying to undermine stability in Iraq and accused the United States of trying to blame Tehran for its own failures there. |
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
 Reuters: One Iraqi civilian was wounded by rockets launched from Iran on Monday, an Iraqi border guard commander said. |
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Sunday, 03 August 2008 |
 AP: The U.S. military says a Shiite militiaman believed to have recently returned from Iran has been detained with four other suspects south of Baghdad. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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UPI: At least 30,000 Iraqi security forces backed by 10,000 U.S. soldiers plan major operations in the eastern province of Diyala starting in August, officials say. |
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