Iraq shuts down borders for poll
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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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The number of Iraqis fleeing their homeland has declined in recent months, primarily because neighboring countries refuse to let them enter, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Iraq will seal its borders next week to prevent Shi'ite pilgrims flooding into the country, the government said Thursday, in the latest emergency measure intended to thwart insurgent violence.
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Britain is reportedly to scale back its 8,000-strong military presence in southern Iraq in October, despite fears of worsening security in the run-up to elections.
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The Security Council voted Friday to immediately close down the U.N. inspection bodies that played a pivotal role in monitoring Iraq's unconventional weapons programs under Saddam Hussein.
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The Security Council voted Friday to immediately shut down the U.N. bodies key to monitoring Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs under Saddam Hussein &#151; a decision an Iraqi diplomat said would close "an appalling chapter" in his country's history.
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Iraq's government shut down the capital with a one-day curfew on Saturday, ordering all cars and pedestrians off the streets and giving no reason for the measure.
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Iraq's top Sunni Muslim party said  Monday it was withdrawing from Jan. 30 elections because  relentless bloodshed would keep people from voting in the long  dominant Sunni north and west.
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Iraq clamped security measures across  the country on Friday, sealing land borders and curbing travel  to foil insurgents bent on wrecking Sunday's election, but 10  Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers died in fresh attacks. Iraqis  began voting abroad. In Australia, exiles danced in the  streets, proudly displaying blue ink on their fingers which  showed they had cast the election's first votes.
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Iran has closed its five entry points with Iraq's Kurdish region, in protest against the recent incarceration of an Iranian by the U.S. military, an Iraqi Kurdish official said Monday
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Iraq will re-open its borders with Iran and Syria, closed earlier this week in the initial stages of a security crackdown, a spokesman for the officer overseeing the plan said on Saturday.
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Iraq's president said on Saturday he  expected that the majority of Iraqis would not vote in Sunday's  election, saying violence would keep them away from the polls.
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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government plans to seal the country's borders for the last three days of this month to prevent attacks aimed at disrupting the Jan. 30 elections, the Independent Electoral Commission declared yesterday. Officials reported that two candidates for the National Assembly were gunned down in separate attacks, and a suicide car bomb killed two people and wounded ...
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A long-awaited Senate showdown on the war in Iraq was shut down before it even started yesterday, when nearly all Republicans voted to stop the Senate from considering a resolution opposing President Bush's plan to send 21,500 additional combat troops into battle.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi admits for the first time that violence will prevent parts of Iraq voting in elections.
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Iraqis in two of the country's most troubled provinces will be permitted to register and vote on the day of elections, the head of Iraq's electoral commission said Saturday.
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Iraq compiled election results on  Tuesday and eased the security lockdown for the historic multi-  party vote despite al Qaeda's vow to pursue "holy war."