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Iraqi Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki met Iranian government officials Sunday in Tehran to quell Iran's fears over a proposed security deal between iraq and the U.S.

Iraq's Prime minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday tried to calm Iranian fears over a U.S.-iraq security pact, saying iraq will not become a launching pad for an attack on its neighbor, according to Iranian media.

At the end of the year, a United Nations mandate expires that gives the U.S. a legal right to have troops in iraq. The U.S. is negotiating a pact with iraq that will extend their right to stay beyond 2008. But Iraqi politicians are concerned the U.S. is seeking too much, and some U.S. Congress members don't want to see the Bush administration tie the hands of the next U.S. president.

NEW YORK -- When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the american medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in iraq who later...

NO need for panic just yet, but the Socceroos now know they have a real fight on their hands after iraq finally bared its claws in the oppressive heat of Dubai early yesterday morning.

A suicide truck bomber who concealed his explosives under tanned animal hides struck a U.S. patrol base Sunday in northern iraq, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding 18 other Americans, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Two Iraqi contractors working at the base...

The northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk is just outside Iraqi Kurdistan, but the Kurds want to claim it as their own. Guest Host Audie Cornish speaks with Quil Lawrence, author of the book, Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood is Shaping iraq and the middle east.

Statement says coalition troops raided suspects' homes near city of Kut Friday

US Ambassador to iraq Ryan Crocker says United States does not seek permanent bases or long-term control of Iraqi airspace

Democratic-led US Senate Intelligence Committee releases report that finds administration ignored disagreements about intelligence information in making its case for war in Iraq