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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 April 2007 The International Organization for Migration says some provinces in Iraq are closing their doors to internally displaced people fleeing violence in Baghdad and other parts of the country. IOM says these areas are
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 13 July 2006 U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, sought to emphasize the positive when he offered an assessment of the situation in Iraq before a congressional committee Thursday. But he said sectarian violence re
By Jim Malone Washington 06 February 2007 The war in Iraq looms as the major issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential race. The war is already causing splits among White House candidates in both major political parties. VOA national correspondent Jim Mal
By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 11 January 2006 An Iraqi mason works on a wall surrounding a new school on the outskirts of Basra (file picture) Iraq has been hit with a construction boom - in no small part du
By Scott Stearns White House 16 December 2006 U.S. President George Bush continues to consider options for what he says will be a new way forward in Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, a bipartisan panel of senior officials is
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 24 January 2007 Democratic Senator James Webb called for a new direction in Iraq, one based on regional diplomacy, in his party's official response to President Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night. VOA's Debor
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 November 2006 The U.N. refugee agency says Iraq is facing a displacement crisis, on a larger scale than was anticipated when the war began in 2003. The UNHCR says continuing violence is leading more Iraqis to flee their hom
By Gary Thomas Washington 20 June 2006 A cable from the U.S. ambassador in Iraq to the State Department says Iraqis employed at the American Embassy in Baghdad live in fear that they will be unmasked as working for Americans. The message was leaked
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 14 March 2006 watch US in Iraq 3 Years Three years ago, President Bush ordered coalition forces to invade Iraq to free its people and defend the world against weapons
By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 08 February 2006 The U.S. military says 100 Iraqi army battalions, totaling about 104,000 Iraqi soldiers, are now fighting alongside U.S. troops in Iraq. The U.S. military says
By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 06 January 2006 Iraqi soldiers gathered in the U.S.-protected Green Zone Friday to celebrate Armed Forces Day. The parades and speeches come one day after suicide bombers in two
By Stephanie Ho Washington 01 February 2007 The group Reporters Without Borders says the number of journalists and media workers killed or imprisoned around the world in 2006 was the highest in more than a decade. In its annual report, the organizati
By Vivian Salama Cairo 21 June 2006 Arab soccer fans are expressing outrage after a player on Ghana's national team triumphantly waved an Israeli flag to celebrate a goal scored by his team at the World Cup. Player John Paintsil normally plays for a
By Jim Randle Baghdad 23 January 2007 A top U.N. envoy says Iraq is sliding into what he calls the abyss of sectarianism and he is urging Iraqi leaders to do more to stop the violence. Across Iraq Tuesday a series of car bombs, kidnappings, and shoot
By Scott Stearns White House 19 April 2007 President Bush says pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq prematurely would put Americans at greater risk of another terrorist attack. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, opposition Democrats have
By Barry Newhouse Sheikhan, Iraq 19 February 2007 Iraq's northern Kurdistan region has been relatively free of the sectarian fighting that has crippled the rest of the country, but a rare attack by Sunni Kurds on a religious group called the has loca
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 16 February 2007 Hundreds-of-thousands of Iraqis have fled sectarian violence near their homes since Saddam Hussein was ousted, and the U.N. says up to 1 million more could flee their homes this year. About half of them are be
By Paula Wolfson White House 20 December 2006 President Bush has signed legislation normalizing U.S. trade relations with Vietnam. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House the provision was included in a wide-ranging tax bill. President Geor
By Paula Wolfson Hanoi 19 November 2006 President Bush, President Putin, after they made statements regarding a US-Russia agreement in Hanoi, November 19, 2006 The United States and Russia have signed a landmark trade agreement moving Moscow closer
By Benjamin Sand Irbil, Iraq 21 October 2006 Iraq's interior minister held an emergency meeting Saturday with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a day after armed members of the Shi'ite leader's militia briefly took over a key southern city. The recent