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The White House submitted a new Benchmark Assessment Report on Iraq to Congress Friday, noting that little progress had been made by the Iraqi government toward accomplishing 18 "benchmarks" thought to be essential to Iraq's stability. The...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced Sunday that sectarian leaders have come to an agreement on several contentious draft laws which have been identified by the US as key to the country's progress . Under the...

The Iraqi Council of Representatives entered its summer recess Monday despite failing to pass constitutional amendments or legislation seen as essential to the stabilization of Iraq. A representative said that the council, which is scheduled...

The Iraqi government has shown sufficient progress in its efforts to develop a constitutional review process, but is not making satisfactory progress in passing laws on the distribution of oil revenues and de-Baathification reform, according to the Initial Benchmark...

The Shiite head of Iraq's Debaathification Commission said Friday he would fight a proposed law allowing former Baath party members to return to their previously held government positions. Despite provisions in the proposal...

Iraqi Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani said Tuesday he in fact did not oppose a proposed law which would return former Baath party members to their previously held government...

Iraqi Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani Sunday rejected a proposed law which would return former Baath party members to their previously held government positions, according to Ahmed Chalabi [BBC profile; JURIST news...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani announced plans Tuesday to present new legislation to the Iraqi National Assembly in upcoming weeks that would allow most...

More than a hundred officials of Saddam Hussein's regime have been charged for their roles in quelling the Shiite uprising following the 1990-91 Gulf War that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Shiites, according...

The unruly nature of the weekend hanging of Saddam Hussein as especially revealed by a grainy but graphic camera phone video taken at the scene prompted protest and disavowal Monday as Sunnis condemned the treatment...