An increasingly isolated Nuri al-Maliki again protested his removal as Iraqi prime minister on Wednesday, as his own political party and his former sponsor in Iran publicly endorsed a successor who many in Baghdad hope can halt advancing Sunni jihadists. Although abandoned by former backers in ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009./ (Reuters) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lent his support to new Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi on ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009./ (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday nuclear talks with world powers would continue, though there ...
Nuri al-Maliki stuck to his guns and refused to accept his removal as Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday, but his hold on power was tenuous as Iran's supreme leader, a long-time Maliki ally, publicly backed his replacement. Taking to state television as acting premier, Maliki said the supreme ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday nuclear talks with world powers would continue, though there was no point in holding negotiations with the United States on other issues. "There are no benefits in having relations or negotiations with the United States, except in ...
Iraqis carry a portrait of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as they march in support of him in Ba …/ Iraqis gather to show their support of incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad Augu …/ Iraqis carry portraits of incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as they gather ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi troops imposed heightened security in Baghdad Wednesday as international support mounted for a new prime minister to replace Nouri al-Maliki, who has called on the armed forces to stay out of politics amid fears of a possible coup./ Tanks and Humvees were positioned on ...
India commemorates its Independence Day on August 15./ Aug 13 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday nuclear talks with world powers would continue, but added there was no point in holding negotiations with the United States on other issues. Khamenei, who has ...
The US and Iran are seeing eye-to-eye on a growing number of challenges in the Middle East, including the need to replace Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq./ The US and Iran support a new Iraqi Prime Minister to replace Nouri al-Maliki. On Tuesday, al-Maliki ordered security forces not to ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, shown in a photo in January, 2014, speaking at a political meeting, said an attempt by Iraq's president to name a successor as PM is unconstitutional./ Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's defiant bid to keep his job ran into growing regional pressure ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — His days in power in Iraq appear increasingly numbered. World leaders, including his biggest ally, Iran, hail the nomination of the man who would be his successor./ There's seemingly little left for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to cling to, beyond the support of party stalwarts ...
Pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to step aside had become unbearable. Sunnis, Kurds, fellow Shi'ites, regional power broker Iran and the United States all wanted him out. Maliki calculated he may have one more chance to hold onto power after eight years in office, even though ...
The US and Iran are seeing eye-to-eye on a growing number of challenges in the Middle East, including the need to replace Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq./ , the State Department is sponsoring a series of friendly volleyball matches in southern California this week between Team USA and ...
Iraq's Nuri al-Maliki insists he should remain premier, but with a rival candidate selected with strong international backing, his bid to cling to power has reached a dead end./ President Fuad Masum tasked Haidar al-Abadi with forming a new government, but two-term premier Maliki has slammed the ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's incumbent prime minister ordered the security forces on Tuesday not to intervene in the current political crisis over who will be the next prime minister, amid fears that he could go to any lengths to keep power in the face of his increasing isolation/ After ordering his ...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lent his support to new Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday, the clearest sign yet that Tehran was no longer standing by old ally Nuri al-Maliki. "I hope the designation of the new prime minister in Iraq will untie the knot ...
Iran officially ended its long-time allegiance to Iraq's sidelined Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday, swinging its support behind newly designated premier Haidar al-Abadi in a congratulatory message./ The statement confirmed that Maliki had lost the crucial backing of fellow Shiite ...
Iraq's new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from both the United States and Iran on Tuesday as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country. Haider al-Abadi still faces a threat closer to home, where his Shi'ite party ...
Iraq's new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from uneasy mutual allies the United States and Iran on Tuesday as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country. Haider al-Abadi still faces opposition closer to home, where ...
The lawmaker tapped to be Iraq's new prime minister has apparently received backing from Iran/ A top Iranian security official welcomes 'the legal process of electing a new prime minister in Iraq'/ Iraq's premier-designate has 30 days to form a new government, which could be a contentious ...
NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good. An Associated Press analysis found their numbers ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US lawmakers in Washington DC on 24 July, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. He will speak to both chambers of Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives - as the Israel-Gaza war continues. Republicans and Democrats ...
The US has told Israel it must be fully "transparent" over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the ...
The average rate on a 30-year loan declined to 6.99% this week, according to Freddie Mac./ The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.99% from 7.03% a week prior, Rate drops, even marginal ones, are generally welcomed by homebuyers sensitive to rates, yet buying activity has stayed ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
Lamees Altalebi, Ahmed Nour, Abdirahim Saeed, Paul Cusiac/ More than a million Palestinians - almost half of the total population of Gaza - have been displaced from the south of the territory over the past month, sharply worsening the already dire humanitarian situation, according to the UN. The ...
West of Maryland, was arrested in the 7200 block of Fairchild Drive in Groveton. Police say he was served a warrant for violation of conditions of release and charged with resisting arrest./ The former point guard played for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in , Maryland before starring at St. ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, is launched, Cape Canaveral/ (Reuters) -Boeing's new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew neared final approach to the ...
The strike took place on the Nuseirat refugee camp, seen here on Monday/ An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed ...
Russian President Putin meets international news agency editors in St Petersburg/ ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United States and its European allies if they allowed ...