Secretary of States Arrives, Unannounced, in Iraq
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Condoleezza Rice flew to Kirkuk, a city where the United States is emphasizing what it sees as signs of cooperation.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell is scheduled to arrive here Monday for a summit he hopes will spur more international support for the interim Iraqi government and elections planned for Jan.
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US President George W Bush is in Iraq on a surprise visit, the White House has announced.
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The American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has made a surprise visit to Iraq to assess rising violence and increased security breaches.
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U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Tuesday in the latest high-level visit from Washington to press for progress on political reform.
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The US secretary of state makes a surprise visit to Iraq in an attempt to build on recent reconciliation efforts.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ordered this week that U.S. diplomatic positions in Iraq must be filled before any other State Department openings in Washington or overseas are made available, raising the possibility that soon the agency will be forced to order its employees to serve in Iraq.
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President Bush and his top national security advisers visited Iraq today, a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus is scheduled to deliver his assessment.
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a previously unannounced visit to celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday with U.S. troops, Iraqi state television said.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has arrived in northern Iraq for talks with Kurdish political leaders.
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PM in waiting uses surprise trip to Iraq to pledge that security and intelligence would in future be kept independent of the political process.
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UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw made an unannounced visit to Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, to meet local officials, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived in Tehran on Monday amid increasing calls for Washington to enlist Iran's help in calming the escalating violence in neighboring Iraq.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived in Jordan for crisis talks with President Bush on Wednesday with some in the White House questioning his ability to rescue Iraq from bloody turmoil.
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Condoleezza Rice gave little ground to senators lambasting U.S. policies in Iraq on the first day of her confirmation hearing to be secretary of state and will return on Wednesday for a second round of questioning.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday, flying directly into the volatile, ethnically mixed northern city of Kirkuk.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about Iraq, U.N. officials said on Friday.