Development In Iraq

November 25, 2010

Talabani and Maliki
08:48 GMT

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani officially named Nuri al-Maliki to a second term as premier on Thursday.

November 21, 2010

Maliki
09:14 GMT

Iraqi MPs met on Sunday for the first time since Eid Al Adha but Nuri al-Maliki is not expected to be named premier-designate for several days.

November 14, 2010

Iraqi troops
13:14 GMT

At least eight people on Sunday were killed in central and northern Iraq.

November 11, 2010

Maliki
08:44 GMT

Iraqi leaders reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday to form a unity government.

November 10, 2010

Baghdad attacks
14:35 GMT

A wave of bombings against Christians on Wednesday killed six of them less than two weeks after the Baghdad church bloodbath.

November 8, 2010

Iraq blasts
13:22 GMT

Iraqi police and hospital officials on Monday said a car bomb exploded not far from one of Shiite Islam's holiest sites in the city of Najaf, killing seven people.

November 7, 2010

Deal in Iraq?
13:56 GMT

Haider Mullah the spokesman of "Iraqia" list on Sunday denied reports published by Iraqi newspapers claiming the approval to participate in a government.

Baghdad church
09:33 GMT

American President Barack Obama on Sunday stated Iraq was taking too long to form a government, and this was a source of frustration.

November 3, 2010

Iraqi church
08:39 GMT

An Al-Qaeda group in Iraq has announced Christians "legitimate targets".

November 2, 2010

Iraq blasts
17:35 GMT

Iraqi hospital and police sources conveyed 14 explosions ripped through Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods.

Church attack
14:33 GMT

The Iraqi government stated on Tuesday it would punish security officials in the Baghdad district where Al-Qaeda gunmen luanched a deadly hostage-taking at a church.

November 1, 2010

Iraq
16:12 GMT

The monthly death toll from violence in Iraq last month was the lowest since November 2009, with a total of 185 people killed, despite the Baghdad church attack.

October 31, 2010

Church in Iraq
16:46 GMT

Armed men stormed into a Christian church in central Baghdad on Sunday.

October 29, 2010

Iraq
20:16 GMT

At least 22 people have been killed and 30 others injured in a suicide bombing near Baghdad.

October 27, 2010

Aziz
16:16 GMT

One day after the issuance of a death sentence on Tareq Aziz, there are calls to avoid his execution.