Iraq&#39;s prime minister vows to stick to election timetable despite ...
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister declared Sunday that January elections would be held on schedule and asserted that American and Iraqi government troops were winning the war against an increasingly bold insurgency.
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Iraq's interim president says Ghazi al-Yawar the 30 January poll must go ahead, despite continuing violence.
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Iraq's interim PM  insists  January's election will take place even if violence stops some Iraqis from voting.
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Iraq&#39;s deputy prime minister on Sunday said that holding elections in January will be &#39;&#39;a serious challenge&#39;&#39; but insisted they must go ahead as scheduled.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi prime minister insisted Sunday that the raging insurgency - which has claimed 300 lives in the last week alone and resulted in a wave of kidnappings - will not delay January elections, promising the vote will strike a "major blow" against the violent opposition.    Meanwhile, a grisly videotape posted on a Web site showed the beheading of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds accused by militants of cooperating with U.S...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An official of a Sunni political party said Thursday the group would push forward with demands to postpone general elections despite statements the government was committed to holding the vote on Jan. 30.
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WASHINGTON - Offering a simple, "Thank you America," Iraqi interim prime minister Ayad Allawi declared Thursday that his country is moving successfully past the war that ousted Saddam Hussein and vowed that elections will take place next year as scheduled.   "Elections will occur in Iraq on time in January because Iraqis want elections on time," Allawi told a joint meeting of Congress, an appearance that President Bush's advisers hoped would ease American voters' doubts about the troubled campaign in Iraq...
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The Kurdish leader who hopes to become Iraq's next president pledged to try to bring the country's disaffected Sunni Arabs into the political process even though many of them stayed away from the polls in landmark elections.
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PARIS  -- Elections in Iraq will go ahead as scheduled in January, even if some Iraqis could not vote, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published Monday in the French daily Le Figaro.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that elections would go ahead as scheduled in January despite unrelenting violence and said trials of ousted leader Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants would likely begin in October.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister told  British media in an interview published on Monday he wanted  elections to go ahead as planned in January even if violence  prevented some Iraqis from voting.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  told Congress on Thursday Iraq would hold elections in January  despite the flaring insurgency, and urged the U.S.-led  coalition not to bow to terrorist forces.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13  people at an Iraqi police academy Wednesday, but Prime Minister  Iyad Allawi vowed to stick to his timetable for a Jan. 30  election despite escalating attacks.
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More than a dozen Iraqi political parties want elections in Iraq postponed until security at the polls can be guaranteed, but President Bush said Thursday the Jan. 30 date for elections is firm and should not be changed.
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British main opposition Conservative Party leader Michael Howard on Tuesday renewed his claim that Prime Minister Tony Blair didn't tell truth in the run-up to the Iraq war, vowing that he is determined to put ...
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President insists he has winning strategy in Iraq even as report says Iraqi government has failed to stem violence and bring about reconciliation.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi urged Iraqis Monday to unite behind democracy in the wake of the country's historic elections, but al-Qaida's arm in Iraq vowed to press ahead with its "holy war" despite its failure to stop the voting by millions of Iraqis.