Obama: Don't stay in Iraq over genocide
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
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Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of a leading anti-war group Friday and said Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton still has not adequately explained her vote to go into Iraq.
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AMES, Iowa  - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama drew a contrast with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton over the Iraq war on Sunday and said he was "not clear" how she planned to end the conflict.
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ANKARA: US troops hunting down extremists in Iraq should take care not to kill civilians, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned in a television interview.
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LONDON  - The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq mobilized Islamic extremists and made the world more dangerous, French President Jacques Chirac said, keeping up his vocal opposition to the war on the eve of a visit to London.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday he bore no responsibility for the violence in Iraq, dismissing allegations from a former ambassador to Baghdad that the British leader failed to focus on stabilizing the country immediately after the invasion.
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Likely presidential contender Senator Barack Obama called for the removal of all US combat forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008, to counter what he called President George W. Bush's &quot;failed policy of escalation.&quot;
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Secretary of State Colin Powell&#39;s admission that the killings, rape, and mass expulsions of African villagers in Darfur constitute genocide made a welcome contrast with the Clinton administration&#39;s refusal, in 1994, to call the Rwandan Genocide by its
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Top US diplomat in Iraq warns against strategy favoured by Obama and Clinton
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TONY EASTLEY: The Japanese Government says it will continue its mission in Iraq, despite the beheading of one of its citizens. The troop deployment is unpopular in Japan, but surprisingly, the political fallout
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The growing religious terror in Iraq "is having a particularly devastating effect on Iraq's non-Muslim minorities," the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom warned in a letter to President George ...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq, with the pullout being completed by the end of next year.
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Democrat Barack Obama Saturday scoffed at suggestions by President Clinton that the Illinois senator is not ready to be president, and that Obama is running strong in Iowa in part because his home state and Iowa share a border.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chileans opposed to the Iraqwar have accused President Bush of war crimes in a criminalcomplaint lodged on Tuesday, less than a month before he isscheduled to visit the country.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 11 -- Sen. Barack Obama, circling through Iowa on Sunday before returning here on Day 2 of his presidential launch, challenged his Democratic rivals to lay out specifics for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and declared that the thousands of lives lost so far in the war had been...
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Between campaign stops in his bid for the White House, Democratic front-runner Barack Obama has been making calls regarding the presidential election and resulting violence in his father's homeland of Kenya.
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China responded to Iraqi insurgents' demands that it ban Chinese from going to Iraq saying on Friday it had already warned its nationals against traveling there and called for the safe release of eight Chinese hostages.