Supporters of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad demand a vote recount ahead of the final results for the country's general election. Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images. Iraq on Friday will announce results from nationwide parliamentary elections held on March 7. The unexpectedly close ...
... more than 100, according to the Associated Press. No one claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attacks, though Iraq's former national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie blamed al-Qaida. He told the BBC he thought their aim was to destabilize the country ahead of elections, which the presidential council set ...
--Iraqi and U.S. soldiers secure the site of Tuesday's bomb blast on Cairo Street in northern Baghdad. (Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images) More than 100 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in a series of coordinated car bombings across Baghdad Tuesday morning. At ...
... S. troops in Iraq beyond a U.N. mandate that expires Dec. 31. Earlier this month, al-Maliki and Iraqi national security adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie said that deal must include dates for troop withdrawals. The debate over troop levels has become a key election issue for Sen. Barack Obama ...
"The draft law offering amnesty to detainees who are innocent was approved by the cabinet and forwarded to parliament [on Wednesday]," said Sadiq al-Rikabi, an adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Agence France-Presse reported.Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, said earlier this month ...
... member of the Intelligence Committee. She has just returned from Baghdad. And they join us now.Senator Snowe, we just heard national security adviser al-Rubaie say that, give them a chance, give Iraqis a chance to walk the last mile, but they're in the last mile. You've ...
... al-Sadr's political movement dealt Iraq's fledgling government another blow today, when six cabinet ministers resigned, including the minister of health. NASSAR AL-RUBAIE, Leader, Al-Sadr Parliamentary Bloc (through translator): We deem it necessary to issue an order to the Sadr bloc ministers to withdraw immediately from ...
"The enemy that is occupying our country is now targeting the dignity of the Iraqi people," lawmaker Nassar al-Rubaie, head of Sadr's bloc in parliament, told the Associated Press during the march. "After four years of occupation, we have hundreds of thousands of people dead and wounded ...
National security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie said the government compiled the list "so that our people can know their enemies."Saddam's wife, Sajida Khairallah Tulfah, who is believed to be in Qatar, and his eldest daughter, Raghad, who lives in Jordan, are number 16 and 17 on the list ...
... told CNN on Monday -- the surge in violence has rattled Iraqi leaders struggling to form a new government. On Tuesday, national security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie traveled to the Shiite holy city of Najaf to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the Shiite community's most influential leader. "The ...
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