Iraq says making progress ahead of key reports
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Iraq has made good strides improving security while political progress is picking up ahead of key reports to be delivered to the U.S. Congress in the next two weeks, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Thursday.
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PARIS  -- Elections in Iraq will go ahead as scheduled in January, even if some Iraqis could not vote, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published Monday in the French daily Le Figaro.
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Washington DC, Sept. 23 - After talks in the Oval Office President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi both insisted real progress is being made in Iraq thanks to the continued US commitment to seeing democracy take hold.
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Iraq began compiling election results  from around the country on Tuesday and eased security measures  surrounding its historic poll despite al Qaeda's vow to pursue  "holy war" after failing to deter millions from voting.
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The Iraqi government has made mixed progress in meeting political and security goals, a U.S. official said on Thursday, citing a report that may add to rising calls for a change of course in the unpopular war.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 8 -- The United Nations has delayed the release of a quarterly report on human rights in Iraq to avoid criticizing Washington and Baghdad while they are seeking to rally congressional and international support for the war effort, according to U.N. officials.
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Iraq's political leaders are showing promising new signs of progress toward reconciliation, yet still face difficult decisions on how to stabilize the country, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
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Developments in Iraq on Thursday:
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The security situation in Iraq is challenging and attacks could increase in coming months, a U.S. progress report said on Thursday as President George W. Bush faces rising pressure to shift course in the unpopular war.
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A widely anticipated White House report on Iraq argues that the Baghdad government has made "satisfactory" progress toward nearly half of the political and military goals sought by Congress, while acknowledging that an equal number remain "not satisfactory." The report, ordered by lawmakers as an...
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Iraq is &quot;working 24 hours a day to ... stop the terrorists,&quot; interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Monday. Iraqis are pushing ahead with reforms and improvements, Allawi told
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A Bush administration report on Iraq shows satisfactory progress on eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory progress on another eight and mixed results on the other two
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U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledged on Thursday his Iraq strategy had made limited progress but said he would wait for a September security report before considering a change of course.
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Surging violence in Iraq this month has  disrupted reconstruction work in parts of the country, but  plans are still on track for a tenfold increase in the number  of projects, a U.S. general said Sunday.
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Elections in Iraq will go ahead in January as planned, the leaders of Britain and Iraq said on Sunday, brushing aside fears that violence will scupper them.
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday he was making progress in finishing an inquiry into Iran's nuclear past ahead of his next report awaited by those powers mulling new sanctions.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday will hear a much-anticipated report on whether Iraq is making progress on meeting political and security benchmarks set by Congress in May.