Iraq Sets Election Despite Fresh Violence
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Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30 as the date for the nation's first election since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a boycott.
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A dozen people are killed in another day of violence across Iraq, as the country prepares for Sunday's poll.
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Iraqâs interim government Saturday vowed to hold national elections Jan. 30, despite rising demands to postpone the vote because of the countryâs violent insurgency.
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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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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi Shiite leaders braced for greater violence but vowed to push ahead with elections in January after twin car bombs claimed the lives of 66 people in the pilgrimage cities of Najaf and Karbala.
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Iraq had a rare moment out of the world spotlight in the past week, eclipsed by the tsunami devastation in Southeast Asia. But the country saw a host of critically important political developments and deadly attacks that could cripple elections set for Jan. 30, and that suggest the insurgents are refining their strategy to wreck the vote.
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Iraq&#39;s interim government voiced confidence on Monday that an election it has scheduled for Jan. 30 will go ahead despite violence and intimidation in some areas and
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday national elections will go ahead in January as planned despite a countrywide surge in violence against U.S. forces and Iraqi troops and police.
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A Sunni group that had called for a delay in voting quietly files its slate for balloting. â¢ Seven Iraqis were killed Thursday in clashes in Baghdad and the volatile city of Ramadi.
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Iraq's interim government voiced  confidence Monday that an election scheduled for Jan. 30 will  go ahead despite violence and intimidation in some areas and a  threat of a boycott by the once dominant Sunni minority.
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Violence marred Iraq&#39;s first official day of parliamentary election campaigning Wednesday as interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced his candidacy for the Jan. 30
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi insisted elections will go ahead as scheduled in January despite a surge in violence, promising Sunday that the vote would be a "major blow" to the insurgency, as U.S. warplanes and artillery pounded the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah...
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Iraq may modify plans for its first free election to give people more time to vote next month, officials said on Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital.
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A RESURGENCE in violence in Iraq killed more than 60 people over the weekend and threatened to derail elections scheduled for January 30.
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The Electoral Commission of Iraq made the announcement after violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday.
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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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Iraqis vote on Sunday in a landmark  election overshadowed by massive security to protect them  against insurgents who killed 20 people on Saturday and have  threatened a polling day bloodbath.