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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
 AP: Hezbollah instructors trained Shiite militiamen at remote camps in southern Iraq until three months ago when they slipped across the border to Iran — presumably to continue instruction on Iranian soil, according to two Shiite lawmakers and a top army officer. |
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Sunday, 29 June 2008 |
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 VOA News: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker says the door is open to further discussions with Iran on the situation in Iraq. VOA's Paula Wolfson has details from Washington.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
 Wall Street Journal: A new U.S. military report accused Iran of continuing to funnel weapons and money to Shiite militants across Iraq and described Iran as the "greatest long-term threat to Iraqi security." |
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
 AP: The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite militiaman on Wednesday for a truck bombing that killed 63 people in a Shiite area of Baghdad, saying he was trying to re-ignite sectarian violence for personal gain. |
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 18 - Coalition forces captured three "suspected outlaws" during operations in the Iraqi city of Kut, the United States military announced on Wednesday.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
 AP: Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's followers won't field candidates under their movement's banner in upcoming provincial elections but will back sympathetic independents and candidates from other party lists, a spokesman said Sunday. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
 AFP: In a fresh blow to Iraq's embattled political process, the movement of hardline Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr said on Sunday it will boycott the provincial elections in October. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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 The Observer: George Bush flies into London today with a warning for Gordon Brown not to announce a timetable for a British pull-out from Iraq, and expressing deep scepticism about the Prime Minister's high-profile strategy for bringing down world oil prices.
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iran is losing influence in Iraq, US President George W. Bush said in a French television interview broadcast Thursday a day before he arrives in Paris on the penultimate leg of a farewell European tour. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 11 - Coalition forces captured a "suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups explosives expert" on Wednesday in Numaniyah, about 180 km southeast of Baghdad near al-Kut, the United States military announced.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: Iran has a secret $2.5 billion (£1.2 billion) budget for supporting terrorist groups that target British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has been claimed. |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 Bloomberg: Iran spends $2.5 billion a year on its "activities" in Iraq and provides militias there with 80 percent of the arms used against U.S.-led forces, the exiled opposition National Council for Resistance in Iran said. |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States is open to holding more talks with Iran about Iraq's security, but it must first be confident that the talks are likely to make progress, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran and Iraq agreed to boost defense cooperation during a visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Tehran on Monday, Iran's official IRNA news agency said, giving few details on the content of the agreement. |
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Iraq's visiting prime minister on Monday against signing an agreement with the United States keeping foreign troops in the country beyond 2008. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 AP: U.S. soldiers in Baghdad captured an Iraqi arms dealer and "assassination squad" leader responsible for trafficking Shiite extremists in and out of neighboring Iran for training, the military said Sunday. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 New York Times: In a shakeup at the top of Iraq’s Shiite power structure, former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari was expelled from the governing Dawa political party, officials said Saturday. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 AFP: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday tried to reassure Iran over a planned security pact with Washington, vowing Iraq would never allow use of its territory to "harm" the Islamic republic. |
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 AP: Iranian state television says Iraq's prime minister is in Tehran for talks with Iranian leaders. |
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
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Iran Focus: London, Jun. 06 - An Iranian-trained “Special Groups” leader surrendered to Coalition forces Friday during operations in al-Hayy, near the city of al-Kut about 190 miles southeast of Baghdad, the United States military announced. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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AFP: The United States hopes to seal a deal with Iraq by July 31 on future US troop deployments despite Iranian attempts to complicate the negotiations, the US ambassador to Baghdad said here Thursday. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
 AP: Iraqi lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday that they have serious misgivings about a long-term security agreement being negotiated this year with President Bush, putting themselves squarely in line with Democrats who say hashing out a deal before Bush leaves office is bad timing. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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 CNN: Mullah Nadhim preached open war on U.S. troops for years. He and many other Sunni Muslims in Iraq shunned elections and fought instead with roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades. With provincial elections scheduled for autumn, however, Nadhim and other Sunnis say, they made a mistake by sitting out the elections in January 2005.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
 AP: One of Iran's most powerful politicians vowed Wednesday that the Islamic world will stop a long-term security agreement that is being negotiated by the U.S. and Iraq. |
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
 AFP: US troops captured an Iranian-trained militia leader and five militiamen southeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, the American military said in a statement. |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
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Reuters: Iraq wants to discuss evidence of Iranian intervention in Iraq and the two countries' overall relationship during a visit to Tehran this week by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a government spokesman said on Monday. |
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Saturday, 31 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's powerful parliament speaker Ali Larijani has urged Iraqis to resist a pact under discussion to extend the US troop presence there beyond 2008, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. |
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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 Washington Times: An American pitch to get more countries to invest in Iraq got a positive response yesterday - but from an unwelcome source.
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
 Reuters: The United States will prod Sunni Arab states to offer more support to the Iraqi government at a conference in Sweden this week as a way of countering the growing influence of non-Arab Iran in Iraq. |
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
 Sunday Telegraph: Iran has been the covert instigator of thousands of the attacks against British troops in southern Iraq for at least four years. It is, without doubt, responsible for the deaths and serious injuries of many British personnel, who have been attempting to contain the violence in southern Iraq. |
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