Envoy Urges Visas For Iraqis Aiding U.S.
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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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A US envoy said Sunday that American military experts might work alongside Syrians to stop militants crossing the Syrian-Iraqi border to fight coalition forces.
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The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq has made a career of taking on difficult tasks.
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At a White House meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Bush urged Iraq's neighbors to help the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi by enforcing border security restrictions in an ...
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Jordan has become the first Arab state to send a fully accredited ambassador to Iraq, a major display of political support for the U.S.-backed government in the face of past kidnapping-slayings of Muslim diplomats.
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Iraq's interim government is considering nominees for the position of ambassador to the United States for the first time since the 1991 Gulf War, deputy foreign minister Hamid al-Bayati said on Thursday.
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Congress has agreed to a tenfold increase in special immigrant visas for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, whose work with U.S. military personnel and diplomatic officials makes them targets for terrorist violence
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A top Iraqi official called for partnerships with international companies to boost his country's oil industry on Sunday, saying Iraq's emergence as a "secure petro-democracy" could quell rampant sectarian violence.
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As one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite faction leaders visited the White House on Monday, the United States made an urgent plea to Iraqis to resist a cycle of violence that will "destroy you and your country".
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UNITED NATIONS - Iraqâs interim prime minister appealed for a major infusion of foreign troops and international aid to help his country hold elections by January, saying a failure to achieve democracy would be a victory for terrorism.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq warned that it may take the U.S. government as long as two years to process and admit nearly 10,000 Iraqi refugees referred by the United Nations for resettlement to the United States, because of bureaucratic bottlenecks.
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The United States will accelerate the resettlement of about 7,000 Iraqis referred by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and will contribute $18 million to the agency's appeal for Iraq, about one-third of the total, Undersecretary of State Paula J. Dobriansky said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq demanded yesterday that the US Embassy replace the private security company Blackwater USA after a shootout last weekend reportedly left 11 Iraqis dead.
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BAGHDAD, Oct 5 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Baghdad today to support embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and urged the fragile Iraqi government to accelerate efforts on national reconciliation.
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WASHINGTON  - The United States is talking to Iraqi leaders about ways to guarantee minority Sunni Muslims a minimum level of top posts in Iraq &#39;s future government, The New York Times reported.
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The US administration and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi are trying to organize an international conference in October to boost Iraq's electoral process, Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a report.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq promised  on Sunday there will be "elaborate security plans" in place for  next week's elections and predicted Iraqis would be able to  vote in most of the country.