Baghdad - Iraq's presidential council on Tuesday decried the Iraqi parliament's failure to choose a speaker and urged all political parties to resolve the dispute by next week.
"The presidential council views the delay in electing the speaker of parliament with deep concern," the council said in a statement on Tuesday.
"As a symbol of Iraq's unity, the presidential council believes that any delay in the vote is harmful to the national interest."
Baghdad - Iraqi TV reporter Montazer al-Zaidi, who famously threw his shoes at US President George W Bush, will face the Iraqi Central Criminal Court on February
19, his brother told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa on Monday.
Maitham al-Zaidi told dpa that his brother is in a good health and that he is ready for the trial.
"All the family will attend the trial to support Montazer. We hope it will be a fair trial."
Maitham said that the trial, which was originally due in December 31, will be open for the press.
Baghdad - Official results from January's provincial elections in Iraq will be ready within two weeks, the country's electoral commission announced Monday.
"The deadline for the announcement of elections results will be two weeks from today," Faraj al-Haidari, the head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission announced on Monday. "But we will do our best to announce them even earlier than that."
Washington, Feb. 9: Many Iraq veterans believe the U. S. is likely to have "soldiers in combat in Iraq until at least 2015.
According to a book written by Thomas E. Ricks, America's best-known defense correspondent, American forces would remain in danger past President Obama's terms, into his second term if he wins reelection or the 45th presidency if he doesn't.
Ricks, the author of the best selling "Fiasco," offers that grim forecast in a new book being published Tuesday, "The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008".
Baghdad - A female pilgrim died of gunshot wounds on Sunday, a day after US forces "unintentionally" fired their weapons in southern Iraq. A second pilgrim was shot at the time.
A statement on the website of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq said the two Iraqis were shot after US soldiers "unintentionally" fired their guns on Saturday in the Iraqi province of Diwaniyah, 200 kilometres south of Baghdad.
But the statement stopped short of accepting responsibility for the civilian casualties.
Baghdad - Iraq's presidential council on Tuesday decried the Iraqi parliament's failure to choose a speaker and urged all political parties to resolve the dispute by next week.
Baghdad - French President Nicolas Sar
Baghdad - Iraqi TV reporter Montazer al-Zaidi, who famously threw his shoes at US President George W Bush, will face the Iraqi Central Criminal Court on February 
Baghdad - Official results from January's provincial elections in Iraq will be ready within two weeks, the country's electoral commission announced Monday.
Washington, Feb. 9: Many Iraq veterans believe the U. S. is likely to have "soldiers in combat in Iraq until at least 2015.
Baghdad - A female pilgrim died of gunshot wounds on Sunday, a day after US forces "unintentionally" fired their weapons in southern Iraq. A second pilgrim was shot at the time.
