BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - The Iraqi Football Association (IFA) gained a new chief on Saturday, in an election in which the country's football establishment won over a candidate unofficially backed by the government.
Najeh Hmoud's victory over Falah Hassan is expected to end two years of paralysis and problems with world football's governing body, FIFA.
Hmoud, the IFA's deputy chief, [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told visiting US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Saturday that Baghdad wants American companies to work on reconstruction projects in Iraq, the premier's office said.
"Iraq is planning to improve roads, seaports and airports, and make use of the experience by American companies in these fields," his office said in a statem [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Four contestants have entered the fray to head the Iraqi Football Association (IFA) in an election Saturday that is expected to end two years of paralysis and problems with FIFA.
The candidates are IFA deputy head Najeh Hmoud, former star player Ahmed Radhi, as well as Falah Hassan and Mahmoud Jassim al-Saadi, respectively the chairman of Baghdad's top-rated [...]
KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - The governor of the disputed Iraqi oil province of Kirkuk said on Wednesday it was important for US forces to extend their year-end pullout deadline because of renewed fears of sectarian violence.
Nejmeddine Karim's remarks constituted a rare public show of support for the US military presence in Iraq, which is due to conclude at end of the year, although Americ [...]
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - Radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday called on Bahrain to pardon two Shiite protesters sentenced to death over the killing of two policemen in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.
"I ask the government of Bahrain to grant an amnesty for the two young people sentenced to death for participating in peaceful demonstrations," he said in a statement from his mov [...]
BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) - Gunmen blasted their way into government offices in central Iraq on Tuesday with two car bombs and suicide blasts that killed seven people and mirrored a March raid claimed by Al-Qaeda.
Militants involved in the attack in Diyala's provincial capital of Baquba exchanged fire with Iraqi security forces, holding them at bay, and took hostages in the siege that last [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Six civilians were killed Tuesday and tanks were deployed near Syria's border with Iraq, activists said as President Bashar al-Assad came under sharp pressure to halt a crackdown on democracy protests.
"Six civilians perished in the past few hours in Ariha," east of Jisr al-Shughur, an activist told AFP in Nicosia, without providing further details.
The latest deat [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The contested president of the Iraqi Football Federation (IFA), Hussein Said, who lives in exile in Jordan, announced his resignation Monday to end a long-standing dispute that has paralysed the body.
"I am resigning to allow the federation to continue its work and maintain the unity of football away from Iraqi sectarianism and political interference," he wrote in a [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq on Sunday killed seven people, including three who died when two bombs exploded as they were playing football, security officials said.
The three youths were killed and 14 were wounded when two roadside bombs exploded as they played football in the Jihad neighbourhood of south Baghdad, an interior ministry official said, speaking on [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Two rival Iraqi lawmakers came to blows inside parliament on Sunday at a time of rising tension between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shiite bloc and a rival Sunni-backed alliance.
The fight started when Kamal Saadi from Maliki's State of Law alliance beat the Iraqiya party's Haidar al-Mulla with his walking stick inside the parliamentary cafe, a parliamentary sour [...]
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