By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 16 October 2007 The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly (395 to 21) approved a resolution crafted by majority Democrats criticizing the State Department for withholding information on corruption in the Iraqi

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 October 2007 Lawmakers have sharply questioned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about allegations that the State Department withheld information of corruption in Iraq, and steps by the government of Prime Minister N

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By Scott Stearns White House 24 November 2007 The former U.S. commander of multi-national troops in Iraq says President Bush's strategy there is failing because it relies too much on military force and not enough on political reconciliation. VOA Whi

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By Deborah Tate Washington 27 February 2008 Abill to cut off funding for the Iraq war survived a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. The action came as Army officials told lawmakers they hope combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan can be shorte

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By Jim Malone Washington 07 August 2006 The war in Iraq is playing a central role in the re-election battle of one of the country's best-known Democrats, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Lieberman faces a tough primary challenge from fellow

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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 01 November 2007 U.S. oversight officials say attacks in Iraq against coalition forces in September dropped to their lowest levels since mid-2006. But they also report that efforts by the U.S. and Iraqi to rebuild the

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By Al Pessin Al-Asad, Iraq 04 September 2007 One of the main purposes of President Bush's surprise visit to Iraq Monday, along with his secretaries of State and Defense and senior military commanders, was to push Iraqi leaders along the difficult roa

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 17 August 2007 A senior U.S. commander in Iraq says he believes there will be a drawdown of U.S. troops starting next April, as long as the security situation continues to improve. Meanwhile, the officer says, coalition and Iraq

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By Gary Thomas Washington 09 February 2007 The controversy over the Bush Administration's pre-war intelligence on Iraq was further fuelled Friday by an internal Pentagon critique of the work of a little-known Defense Department office. As VOA corresp

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By Brian Padden Washington, DC 18 December 2006 watch Civil War report There has been much talk about whether the level of sectarian violence in Iraq has risen to the point where it should be called a civil war. Why is it important to make such a di

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By Dan Robinson Washington 05 March 2008 U.S. lawmakers have again pressed Bush administration officials for details of negotiations that will lay the groundwork for future U.S. commitments to Iraq. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, where

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 13 September 2006 watch US Focus on Iraq President Bush concedes that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States. But the president devoted most of his attention

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By David Gollust Washington 22 October 2007 The State Department says the United States is making an all-out diplomatic effort to defuse the crisis spawned by cross-border attacks into Turkey by Iraq-based Kurdish PKK militants. Secretary of State Co

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By Jim Malone Washington 19 May 2006 Immigration is the hot topic of debate in Washington these days. But the situation in Iraq is never far from the minds of politicians and policy makers in both maj

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington 15 March 2006 Three years ago, President Bush ordered coalition forces to invade Iraq to free its people and to act on intelligence that indicated its dictator had weapons

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By Scott Stearns Washington 12 August 2007 U.S. President George Bush and French President Nicholas Sarkozy met Saturday for informal talks on the war in Iraq and uranium enrichment in Iran. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the Fr

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By Jim Randle Taji, Iraq 09 November 2007 U.S. military officers and local sheiks say an area north and west of Baghdad is turning away from the al-Qaida terror group and offering more support to the Iraqi government. The change follows a series of b

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By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 06 October 2007 The U.S. military says coalition forces have killed six more terrorists in Iraq. They also deny that an air attack on Friday hit innocent civilians. VOA's Jim Randle reports from northern Iraq. In an e-mailed

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By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 09 April 2007 Tens of thousands of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr responded to his call for mass demonstrations in the Shiite holy city of Najaf Monday. From Baghdad, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more. F

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By Paula Wolfson White House 17 September 2007 President Bush and members of his national security team conferred via video teleconference Monday with U.S. reconstruction and military officials in Iraq. VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson has

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