BAGHDAD, Nov. 21, 2008 (Reuters) — Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched on Friday against a pact letting U.S. forces stay in Iraq until 2011, toppling an effigy of President George W. Bush where U.S. troops once tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2008 (Reuters) — The U.S. government is refusing to make public the security pact it has signed with Iraq, even though it has already been published in full in an Iraqi newspaper, a congressional hearing was told on Wednesday. ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 18, 2008 (Reuters) — Iran's parliament speaker urged Iraqi lawmakers to keep resisting a security pact with the United States, official media said Tuesday, a day after Baghdad signed an accord on U.S. troop presence in Iraq. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 17, 2008 (Reuters) — Iraq and the United States signed a long-awaited accord on Monday requiring Washington to withdraw its forces by the end of 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2008 (Reuters) — The top U.S. military officer on Monday gave a cautious welcome to the new U.S.-Iraqi pact that calls for U.S. forces to leave the country in three years, but he warned security conditions could change. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 10, 2008 (Reuters) — Iraq's cabinet has drawn its conclusions on a final U.S. draft of a security pact that would require American troops to leave by the end of 2011, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media adviser said on Monday. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 10, 2008 (Reuters) — Two car bombs exploded in central Baghdad Monday and a suicide bomber blew himself up among police and civilians who rushed to help the wounded, a triple strike that killed 28 people and wounded 68. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — The United States has accepted some Iraqi proposals to change a pact governing the presence of U.S. troops, but had reservations about others, necessitating further talks, Iraq said Thursday. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 5, 2008 (Reuters) — Breakfast was already being served in Baghdad on Wednesday morning when Tuesday's polls closed back home, and at Forward Operating Base Prosperity all eyes were on the dining hall's giant TVs. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 4, 2008 (Reuters) — Explosions killed at least 13 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, with one blast targeting a Shi'ite member of the first U.S.-backed Iraqi governing body. ... > full story
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Skepticism about troop pact Nov. 19, 2008 (Boston Globe) — Passage of the proposed US-Iraq security pact could violate the constitutions of both countries, specialists told a congressional panel today.. ...
Shiites to vote against Iraq-US pact Nov. 19, 2008 (GulfNews, United Arab Emirates) — A small Iraqi Shiite party based in the south says it will vote against a security pact with the United States allowing US troops to stay in Iraq ...
Suicide bombing kills 8 Nov. 10, 2008 (Regina Leader-Post) — Two suicide bombers killed at least eight people and wounded 14 in an attack on a police headquarters just outside the western Iraqi city of Ramadi ...
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