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An official with the parliamentary committee overseeing the drafting of Iraq's permanent constitution said Sunday that up to 35 Sunni Arabs will be listed by their leaders as willing to help draft the new constitution. The 55-member...

In the wake of the latest campaign to track down insurgents in Baghdad, human rights groups have called on Iraqi and US forces to respect humanitarian law when raiding houses in search of suspects. The campaign, announced on May...

US military officials have acknowledged that the arrest Monday of Sunni leader Mohsen Abdel Hamid , head of the Iraqi Islamic Party , was a mistake, and that US forces had confused Hamid with someone else. According...

US troops detained the leader of Iraq's largest Sunni Muslim political party in a house raid in western Baghdad early Monday, confiscating several items including a computer. Mohsen Abdul Hamid is head of the Iraqi Islamic Party ,...

AP is reporting that Hummam Hammoudi, a Shiite Muslim cleric who is a senior aide in the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , will likely be announced as head of the Iraqi constitution committee....

Middle East spokeswoman for Amnesty International Nicole Choueiry expressed the group's opposition Monday to a recent announcement from Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari that the death penalty would be retained in Iraq and that the...

An Islamist website has posted a message from Iraq's Al-Qaeda group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi urging Sunni Muslims not to participate in the Iraqi political process, especially the drafting of the new constitution, and calling...

On a visit to Iraq Sunday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the Shiite- and Kurd-dominated government to involve the Sunni Arabs - estimated to make up anywhere from 20% to over 50% of...

The newly formed Iraqi government on Tuesday created a 55-member committee that will begin work on drafting the country's permanent constitution by the August 15 deadline prescribed by the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) , the interim Iraqi constitution. The...

The incoming Iraqi minister for human rights designated by Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari rejected the post Sunday shortly after it and five other late Iraqi cabinet appointments were approved by Iraq's National Assembly. Hashim al-Shible, former...