Iraq Violence Delays Rebuilding Key Farm Sector
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Failure by the United States to stop postwar violence in Iraq has crippled efforts to rebuild an essential part of the Iraqi economy -- agriculture, according to U.S. government officials.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Oil exports from southern Iraq have been brought to a complete halt, a senior oil official said Monday, following a spate of pipeline attacks launched by insurgents trying to undermine the volatile nation's interim government.    In Baghdad, military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive Baghdad slum of Sadr City...
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Some of Iraq's most powerful political groups called for a six-month delay in elections, citing concerns over security.
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Some events and scattered violence across Iraq on Wednesday:
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A senior Iraqi official says oil exports have been halted because of several recent attacks on pipelines. The official with South Oil Company, who doesn&#39;t want to be named, says the country&#39;s key southern
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Leading Iraqi political parties have called for forthcoming elections to be delayed because of mounting violence in the country. Fifteen political parties - including two Kurdish groups
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 19--Six weeks before Iraq&#39;s nationwide vote, another blast of violence hit the country Sunday, including two deadly bombings claiming at least a dozen lives
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Iraq&#39;s stagnant economy and lack of employment opportunities are feeding instability in the violence-torn country, hindering prospects for prosperity, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Monday.
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Iraqi borders and airport close and normal life grinds to a halt, but attacks continue ahead of Sunday's poll.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of 17 leading Iraqi political organizations, including some of America&#39;s closest allies, called Friday for a postponement of elections scheduled for Jan. 30, citing the violence and a lack of preparations.
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WASHINGTON -- A State Department assessment of how the agency will direct almost $18 billion in unspent aid to rebuild Iraq is running about a month behind schedule, frustrating at least one key member of Congress already upset by the slow pace of reconstruction spending.
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Iraq's parliament delayed debate on   Sunday on a divisive draft law on federalism that minority   Sunni Arabs fear could lead to the partition of Iraq and stoke   sectarian conflict that has already killed thousands.
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Iraq&#39;s President Ghazi Yawer has postponed a visit to France scheduled for next week following the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki complained Tuesday the long-awaited Baghdad security operation was off to a slow start and warned that insurgents are taking advantage of the delay to kill as many people as possible.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq said today that he was frustrated by the delays that have stalled a new security plan for the capital.
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Attempts to pass a key oil law sought by the U.S. were snarled once more Wednesday by deep differences among Iraq's Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders, delaying parliament debate despite the prime minister's claims of a breakthrough.
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A dozen people are killed in another day of violence across Iraq, as the country prepares for Sunday's poll.