Ahmad Chalabi

Iraq has reinstated 59 previously banned election candidates on technical grounds, a senior official from an integrity and accountability committee said on Monday.

US Marines draw down in Iraq as Biden holds talks in Baghdad on election 'blacklist'. The U.S. Marines marked the end of nearly seven years in Iraq on Saturday by handing the Army their command of Anbar province, once one of the war's fiercest battlefields but now a centerpiece of U.S.-Iraqi cooperation.

The row over a ban on election candidates with alleged links to Saddam Hussein escalated on Thursday as Iraq's president questioned the ruling's legality and thousands of Shiites held street protests.

The row over a ban on election candidates with alleged links to Saddam Hussein escalated on Thursday as Iraq's president questioned the ruling's legality and thousands of Shiites held street protests.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani cast doubt on Thursday on the legality of a controversial committee that has barred more than 500 candidates linked to Saddam Hussein from standing for election.

More than 500 candidates banned from running in Iraq's March 7 general election were accused Tuesday of being part of executed dictator Saddam Hussein's once deadly political and military nexus.

More than 500 candidates banned from running in Iraq's March 7 general election were accused Tuesday of being part of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's once deadly political and military nexus.

More than 500 candidates banned from running in Iraq's March 7 general election were on Tuesday accused of being part of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's political and military infrastructure.

All 511 candidates banned from running in Iraq's general election had links to ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's political and military infrastructure, a parliamentary official told MPs on Tuesday.

Iraq, a country with almost no Jews, pushes for return of Hebrew archive. It was seized from Jewish families and wound up soaking in sewage water in the basement of a secret police building. Rescued from the chaos that engulfed Baghdad as Saddam Hussein was toppled, it now sits in safekeeping in an office near Washington, D.C.