Bush, Maliki to meet as Iraqi deaths hit new high
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U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Jordan next week with grim new statistics showing record numbers of Iraqis were killed last month and many more fled the country.
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Whatever the reason for the delay of the start of the Bush-Maliki summit, the signs are that the President and Iraq's prime minister are on a collision course
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The number of Iraqi civilians meeting violent deaths rose to a new high in October, according to the UN.
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President Bush sneaked over to Baghdad to meet him last month. Now he plans to welcome Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to the White House for the first time.
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President Bush and Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry prepared on Thursday for a security policy showdown expected to focus on Iraq, where 41 people died in one of the most violent days in the post-war insurgency.
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U.S. President George W. Bush and  Australia&#39;s Prime Minister John Howard met beside Sydney  Harbour on Wednesday to discuss progress in Iraq and a new  defense deal ahead of an Asia-Pacific leaders&#39; summit.
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As religious and political leaders met in Baghdad yesterday to discuss the selection of a 100-member interim assembly, a few kilometres away seven people were killed and 47 injured when a mortar shell exploded in a busy street.
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President Bush will meet next week with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, a principal ally in Iraq, in his first meeting with a foreign leader since his re-election, the White House said on Saturday.
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World leaders meeting on Thursday to  discuss tsunami aid, debt relief and an Indian Ocean warning  system were told the waves' death toll could double to about  300,000 unless action was taken this week to prevent disease.
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President George W. Bush and Australia's Prime Minister John Howard meet beside Sydney Harbour on Wednesday to discuss progress in Iraq and a new defense deal ahead of an Asia-Pacific leaders' summit.
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President Bush's chaotic summit with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is a telling sign of U.S. worries that the raging conflict in Iraq could tip the balance of power in the Middle East well beyond embattled Baghdad.
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Days ahead of his meeting with President Bush, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said that IraqÂs leaders would work to resolve their political conflicts.
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The U.S. military announced on Friday the deaths of six more soldiers in Iraq, hours after U.S. President George W. Bush predicted a bloody summer lay ahead.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi leaders on rising violence.
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Iraqi civilian deaths in political violence reached a new high in January, data from an interior ministry official showed on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON Fueled by fierce fighting in Falluja and insurgents&#39; counterattacks elsewhere in Iraq, the US military death toll for November approached the highest for any month of the war.
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President Bush will meet with one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite politicians on Monday in a continued bid to find a new approach to ending sectarian violence that is pulling at the seams of the nation. Then, in January, the president will meet with the Sunni vice president of Iraq, a senior administration official said Friday.