IRAQ'S parliament yesterday rejected for a second time a draft law allowing foreign troops from countries other than the United States, including Britain, to remain after

Finally overcoming months of political deadlock, Iraq's Parliament overwhelmingly approved a provincial election law on Wednesday. Iraq's presidential council vetoed a previous version of the law in July, which Parliament passed after a walkout by Kurdish lawmakers. Debate over the law had been plagued by a complex dispute between Arabs and Kurds over the sharing of power between ethnic ...

The legality of the continued presence of British troops in Iraq was far from certain last night as the Baghdad parliament delayed a crucial vote on the issue. Iraq's parliament, caught up in a furious but unrelated dispute, will meet in emergency session today when British officials hope that some form of legal cover will be given to British forces in Basra before they leave next summer. How...

From Reuters, there might be some food for thought here for the Libyan rebels Iraq’s parliament is chasing about $17 billion of Iraqi oil money it says was stolen after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and has asked the United Nations for help to track it down. The missing money was shipped to Iraq from the United States

BBC: Brown rejects early Iraq inquiry I have no doubt that if a full and thorough enquiry was held into how we got embroiled in the Iraq War, we’d find that indeed evidence was cooked and we (by which I mean Parliament) were bullshitted into war. I do have doubts, however, that’ll any enquiry will be “allowed”

This has to be the beginning of the end. The UN mandate for the western occupation of Iraq expires next month, to be replaced by a US-Iraq treaty about to be ratified by the Iraqi parliament. This sets a limit of three years on the presence of foreign troops. It is sovereignty for slow learners. With radical Mahdists demanding an immediate withdrawal, the treaty will hold only if honoured. Accordi...

Iraq's parliament approved the Iraqi-US Status of Forces Agreement with a huge majority. "This is the day of our sovereignty," said Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. "Together we will go forward toward a free, prosperous and glorious Iraq, where Iraqis can live with pride and dignity and can be proud that they are sons of this beloved country," he said. Since the cabinet approved the final...

Iraqi parliament OKs US troops for 3 more years  BAGHDAD (AP) - The long, costly story of American military involvement in Iraq moved closer to an end Thursday when Iraq's parliament approved a pact that requires all troops to be out in three years, marking the first clear timetable for a U.S. exit since the 2003 invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. The vote for the security deal followe...

AN exhibition by an acclaimed Japanese photojournalist on the impact of uranium weapons on Iraq's civilian population will open in the Scottish Parliament tomorrow.

Responding to Gordon Brown’s statement to Parliament on the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, Nick Clegg said: "This was the single worst foreign policy decision for the last 50 years." It is time the Government and the Conservatives held up their hands and said sorry to the British people for Iraq. "We have paid a huge cost for our decision to cover George Bush's back: a human co...