Iraq Dominates the State Department
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Asked to list Condoleezza Rice's main challenges as President Bush's secretary of state, career diplomat James Dobbins has a succinct answer: "Iraq, Iraq and Iraq."
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A pair of new reports have delivered scorching judgments about how the State Department oversees work done by private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The secretarys of state and defense have expressed concerns over Iran's attempt to shape Iraq's future.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 -- A U.S. State Department motorcade came under attack in Baghdad on Sunday, prompting security contractors guarding the convoy to open fire in the streets. At least nine civilians were killed, according to Iraqi officials.
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Facing staff shortages in Iraq, the State Department announced Friday that diplomats would have no choice but to accept one-year postings in the hostile environment or face losing their jobs.
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BEHIND THE scenes, Secretary of State Colin Powell was reported to have been a voice for restraint as plans for an invasion of Iraq picked up steam.
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Top US diplomat in Iraq warns against strategy favoured by Obama and Clinton
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Differences have emerged between the U.S. and British views of how to operate in southern Iraq, with U.S. officials encouraging the British to be more aggressive for as long as they keep troops there, said an American official closely familiar with Iraq policy.
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U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker says he wants the Iraqis to solve their own problems Caption: America's top diplomat in Baghdad (right) gets a military escort in April.
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The Bush administration is bumping up against the limits of military and political power to influence what happens next in Iraq, four years into an increasingly unpopular war that has not gone as planned.
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Frustrated by the pace of rebuilding  in Iraq, the State Department announced on Tuesday it would  switch $3.4 billion in U.S. funds from water and power projects  to boost security, oil output and jobs for Iraqis.
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The American ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan C. Crocker, has asked the Bush administration to take the unusual step of granting immigrant visas to all Iraqis employed by the U.S. government in Iraq because of growing concern that they will quit and flee the country if they cannot be assured eventual...
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WASHINGTON: A US State Department official who worked with the Iraqi ministers of education and higher education was murdered in Baghdad by a group linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the group claimed on Thursday.
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The State Department will order as many as 50 U.S. diplomats to take posts in Iraq next year because of expected shortfalls in filling openings there, the first such large-scale forced assignment since the Vietnam War.
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The Bush administration is re-evaluating its efforts to unite Iraq's fractious sectarian and political factions in an attempt to preserve U.S. options in Iraq no matter what happens, officials familiar with an internal administration review of Iraq policy said Friday.
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Halting violent sectarian strife in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, will dominate President Bush's summit with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki next week in the Middle East.
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Under pressure to start withdrawing U.S. troops, the Bush administration wants the United Nations to play an expanded role in Iraq as a mediator both internally and with neighboring countries.