| Tue, 7 Feb 2012 Sunni Ministers in Iraq Return to Cabinet | BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Sunni ministers returned to the cabinet on Tuesday, an incremental step that eases the tensions of the country’s political crisis but does not end it, and sets the stage for a national conference to seek a durable solution to a secta... | U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Half | BAGHDAD — Less than two months after American troops left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as half the enormous diplomatic presence it had planned for Iraq, a sharp sign of declining American influence in the country. | Notes from the front... | EU, US must accept Camp Ashraf inmates: Iranian dissident | AFP - The EU and United States must take in ailing and wounded inmates from a camp in Iraq housing thousands of Iranian dissidents, the leader of an Iranian opposition group said Tuesday. | "I urge the European Union and the United States to immediately accept a certa... | Women's prison chief killed, 8 wounded in Iraq | Gunmen shot dead the head of a women's prison and wounded her driver in Baghdad on Tuesday, while seven people were wounded in bomb attacks in and around the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said. | Gunmen using silencers shot dead Sajida Saleh Hassan, the... | Saudi Qaeda leader sentenced to death in Iraq BAGHDAD ' Iraq has sentenced to death a Saudi man who was an Al-Qaeda leader in northern Iraq, the Higher Judicial Council said in a statement released on Tuesday. | The man, identified only by the initials BA and described as the military emir (commander) of the easter... | Women's prison chief killed, 8 wounded in Iraq | AFP - Gunmen shot dead the head of a women's prison and wounded her driver in Baghdad on Tuesday, while seven people were wounded in bomb attacks in and around the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said. | Gunmen using silencers shot dead Sajida Saleh Hassa... | Commercial traffic resumes on Iraq's Shatt al-Arab | Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. | Part of the 200-kilometre-long (120 miles) waterway forms a section of the border with ... | | |
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