Jalal Talabani has taken the lead in sponsoring dialogue between rival political groups to resolve the political crisis that erupted after dozens of political parties claimed fraud in Iraq's recent elections.
Leading Iraqi politicians have announced that they will launch their own investigation into allegations of election fraud in the 15 December parliamentary elections. The Iraqi Independent Election Commission says some 1,200 voting complaints have been filed.
Partial results from Iraq’s parliamentary election indicate that the Shi'ite-led United Iraqi Alliance will remain the dominant grouping in the next parliament.
Election officials are tallying the results of parliamentary elections, a task that could take up to two weeks.
Prague, 15 December 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Iraqi voters on 15 December generally expressed optimism at the polls, saying the legislative elections promised to bring stability to the country, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reported.
A soldier in Baghdad on 14 December (epa) Prague, 15 December 2005 (RFE/RL) -- There were reports of sporadic violence in several cities across Iraq as the polls opened on 15 December, international media reported.
On 15 December, Iraq held national elections for a new legislature, the first under the constitution adopted by referendum in October. Security has been tight as the campaign, which has been marred by violence and assassinations, comes to an end.
The campaign season in Iraq has grown malicious in recent weeks as political parties attempt to place themselves in the spotlight ahead of the 15 December parliamentary elections. Candidates, campaign workers, and party offices have been attacked, while party leaders have made verbal assaults and allegations against their rivals.
The Al-Dujayl trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants from the former regime has seen Hussein, his co-defendants, and their lawyers seek to delay and disrupt the court proceedings by all possible means.
Sunni and Shi'ite Arab leaders in Baghdad have questioned the authority of the Kurdistan Regional Government after it began drilling for oil in the Dahuk Governorate.
Eleven foreigners and two Iraqi guides were kidnapped in Iraq in recent days in three separate incidents that draw attention to a new string of attacks targeting Westerners in Iraq.
Iraqi delegates to the three-day Arab League-sponsored meeting on national reconciliation in Cairo vowed on 21 November to undertake a series of trust-building measures ahead of a broader conference slated to be held in Baghdad early next year.
Reports of the alleged torture of Sunni Arab detainees by Iraqi security forces strained Sunni-Shi'ite relations ahead of the current Arab League-sponsored conference on Iraqi reconciliation.
Pakistan's information minister rejected Afghan suggestions that Islamabad is aiding the neo-Taliban, saying his country "has always been supportive of [a] peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan."
Iraq-based terrorist Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the 9 November bombing of three hotels in Amman.
Despite resistance from the Communists, a majority of Russians favor burying the embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and less than 10 percent would protest such a move, a recent poll shows.
An agreement to grant transit rights has been the subject of much debate, since many still associate NATO with the 1999 bombing campaign.
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli has presented to the OSCE's Permanent Council in Vienna the most recent version of President Mikheil Saakashvili's proposals for resolving the South Ossetian conflict.
Tariq al-Hashimi (L) announcing the formation of a Sunni bloc on 26 October (AFP) Some Sunni Arab leaders disputed the official results of the 15 October referendum on the draft constitution on 25 October after the Iraqi Independent Electoral Commission (IECI) announced that the referendum had passed in 16 of Iraq's 18 governorates. And though at least one Sunni leader has called for a new referendum to be carried out in some Sunni-populated governorates, most groups appear to have accepted the referendum results -- if not grudgingly -- and are now setting their sights on the December elections.
Secretary-General Amr Musa claims to have won the support of Kurds and Shi'ite and Sunni Arabs for a national reconciliation conference. How much can be expected from the Arab League initiative?
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