U.S. says Iran still training Iraqi militias
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The U.S. military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being smuggled into Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraqi militias.
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The U.S. military said Wednesday it's concerned about Iraq's Shiite Medhi militia, although its leader, anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, remains in neighboring Iran.
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The United States will not release five Iranians detained in a U.S. military raid in northern Iraq until at least October, despite entreaties from the Iraqi government and pressure from Iran,  U.S. officials said. The delay is as much due to a communication and procedural foul-up within the U.S....
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The United States would deal with Iran as part of a group of Iraq's neighbors that will meet in Egypt this month, although Washington has no diplomatic relations with Tehran, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.
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Iran is training Iraqi Shi'ites to use armor-piercing munitions inside Iran and at camps in Lebanon run by the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah, the top U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday.
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Analysis: The resolution of the bloody battle between Sadr's Mahdi army and the Iraqi army shows that the Iraqi government still doesn't have the necessary will to rein in the Shi'ite militias
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The most senior US military officer says Iran's government may not be directly involved in arming Shias in Iraq.
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The U.S. military said on Sunday it had evidence Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq were increasingly using secret weapons stores to attack U.S. and Iraqi forces.
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Senior U.S. military officials today presented their first public evidence for the assertion that Iran is supplying Shiite extremist groups in Iraq with deadly weaponry.
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Iran is supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons technology used to kill American troops, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday, sending another warning to Iran against interfering in Iraq.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq said in an interview released Monday that it's "indisputable" Iran is training and arming militants to fight against U.S.-led troops in Iraq.
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The United States accused Iran in talks on Tuesday of increasing support for militias involved in bloodshed in Iraq but, in a rare sign of cooperation, agreed with Tehran to set up a panel to improve security.
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The United States and Iran broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze Monday with a four-hour meeting about Iraqi security. The American envoy said there was broad policy agreement, but that Iran must stop arming and financing militants who are attacking U.S. and Iraqi forces.
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Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraq's most powerful Shiite politician, defended Iran on Tuesday against American allegations that it trained and equipped Shiite militias, and said the U.S. has not provided any proof.
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U.S. officials are expected to call on Iran to stop arming and funding Shi'ite militias when Iranian and American diplomats hold rare talks in Baghdad on Monday to discuss how to curb sectarian violence in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- A US military spokesman accused Iranian leaders yesterday of using guerrillas from Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group to train militiamen fighting American troops in Iraq and to organize attacks, including a January ambush on an Iraqi-US outpost that killed five American soldiers.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 14 -- U.S. officials believe that Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the fiercely anti-American leader of the Mahdi Army militia, has traveled to Iran, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV told reporters at a briefing Wednesday.