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Expatriate Iraqis look at a candidates list at a polling station ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:04:00 GMT

(AFP) - Expatriate Iraqis look at a candidates list at a polling station in Amman in 2005. At least 10 polling stations are to open in Jordan for Iraqi expatriates to take part in their country's March 7 election, as part of worldwide out-of-country voting, Iraq's ambassador said on Tuesday. Photo:Khalil Mazraawi/AFP

A British soldier patrols the Iraqi city of Basra in 2003. British ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - A British soldier patrols the Iraqi city of Basra in 2003. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will appear before the public inquiry into the Iraq war in early March, a spokesman for the probe said on Tuesday. Photo:Dan Chung/AFP

Iraq's Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani speaks at a news ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:35:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraq's Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani speaks at a news conference in Baghdad February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: ENERGY POLITICS HEADSHOT)

Iraq's Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani (L) holds a joint ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:33:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraq's Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani (L) holds a joint conference with Iraq's Planning Minister Ali Baban in Baghdad February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: ENERGY POLITICS)

Members of different organisations and ministries hold up their ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:48:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Members of different organisations and ministries hold up their banners during a rally against the return of Saddam Hussein's Baath party, in Amara, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Salah Thani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) QUALITY FROM SOURCE

A worker drills a billboard of Iraqiya bloc candidate Omar Abdul-Sattar ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:02:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A worker drills a billboard of Iraqiya bloc candidate Omar Abdul-Sattar in Baghdad February 9, 2010. Iraq will hold parliamentary elections in March. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Workers adjust a poster of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:01:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Workers adjust a poster of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition in Baghdad February 9, 2010. Iraq will hold parliamentary elections in March. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

A worker adjusts posters of Iraqiya bloc candidates for March ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:58:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A worker adjusts posters of Iraqiya bloc candidates for March parliamentary elections at a workshop in Baghdad February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

A worker carries a billboard of Iraqiya bloc candidate Omar ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:55:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A worker carries a billboard of Iraqiya bloc candidate Omar Abdul-Sattar in Baghdad February 9, 2010. Iraq will hold parliamentary elections in March. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

A worker prints posters of political candidates for parliamentary ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:51:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A worker prints posters of political candidates for parliamentary elections in March, at a workshop in Baghdad February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

A worker prints posters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:49:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A worker prints posters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ahead of March parliamentary elections, at a workshop in Baghdad February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Iraq's former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi speaks during an interview ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:33:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraq's former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad February 8, 2010. A ban on election candidates accused of links with Saddam Hussein's Baath party threatens to drag Iraq into civil war, a former prime minister and head of a group seen as a strong contender in the polls said on Monday. Picture taken February 8, 2010. To match interview IRAQ-ELECTION/BAATH REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS HEADSHOT)

In this July 23, 2006 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D- Pa., ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:02:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - In this July 23, 2006 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D- Pa., waits to speak to Democrats at the Hampton, N.H. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Cheryl Senter, File

File photo shows a Yemeni soldier in clashes with Shiite rebels ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:08:00 GMT

(AFP) - File photo shows a Yemeni soldier in clashes with Shiite rebels in Saada province. Ten Yemeni soldiers have been killed, most of them by snipers, and 18 wounded in a fresh outbreak of fighting with Shiite rebels in north Yemen, a military official said. Photo:/AFP

Britain's former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, arrives to give ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:45:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Britain's former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, arrives to give evidence for the second time at the Iraq Inquiry in London February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT)

Iraqis prepare campaign posters for the coalition of Iraqi Prime ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - Iraqis prepare campaign posters for the coalition of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the southern city of Basra on February 6. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he has received assurances that judges will resolve a simmering row over who can stand in Iraq's general election before official campaigning starts on February 12. Photo:Essam al-Sudani/AFP

Iraqi men protest with signs that read, 'We swear by the blood ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - Iraqi men protest with signs that read, 'We swear by the blood of martyrs, you will not return' during a protest in Baghdad against the stand in the election of candidates with links to the Baath party. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he received assurances that judges will resolve a simmering row over who can stand in Iraq's general election before official campaigning starts on February 12. Photo:Sabah Arar/AFP

Iraqis protest in the central shrine city of Najaf against the ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - Iraqis protest in the central shrine city of Najaf against the standing in the upcoming elections of some candidates with links to the outlawed Baath party. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he has received assurances that judges will resolve a simmering row over who can stand in Iraq's general election before official campaigning starts on February 12. Photo:Qassem Zein/AFP

Iraqis holds slogans that read in Arabic, 'No to the return ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - Iraqis holds slogans that read in Arabic, 'No to the return of criminal Baathists' during a protest in the central shrine city of Najaf. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he has received assurances that judges will resolve a simmering row over who can stand in Iraq's general election before official campaigning starts on February 12. Photo:Qassem Zein/AFP

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki meets with tribal leaders ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:55:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki meets with tribal leaders from Sadr City as Iraq's government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh (R) looks on in Baghdad February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Iraqi Government/Handout (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

File photo shows two women recruits standing in front of their ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - File photo shows two women recruits standing in front of their peers as they participate in a graduation ceremony for more Iraqi Police students in southern Baghdad. Official Iraqi statistics show that there are 102 men for every 100 women, but the ratio varies significantly depending on the age group, underpinning the plight of Iraq's single women. Photo:Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP

Iraqi women wash their utensils in a drying canal in the village ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - Iraqi women wash their utensils in a drying canal in the village of Ghazali, near the holy city of Najaf, in central Iraq, in November 2009. During the first five months of 2006, at the height of the sectarian blood-letting, between 90 and 100 Iraqi women lost their husbands each day, according to Iraq's association for women's rights. Photo:Sabah Arar/AFP

With a long succession of wars since the 1980s, Iraq has lost ...

(AFP) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - With a long succession of wars since the 1980s, Iraq has lost many thousands of soldiers -- the vast majority of them men. The country now faces a severe demographic imbalance, with more and more women winding up unmarried -- a stigma in conservative Muslim society. Duration: 01:57 Photo:/AFP

Iraqi mourners carry the coffins of victims who were killed ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:08:00 GMT

(AFP) - Iraqi mourners carry the coffins of victims who were killed in a bomb attack in Karbala, during a mass funeral in the central shrine city of Najaf on February 6. US General David Petraeus on Saturday slammed the 'barbaric actions' of a morally bankrupt Al-Qaeda following a series of attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq blamed on the extremist network. Photo:Qassem Zein/AFP

A woman holds a poster of Sunni politicians Saleh al-Mutlaq ...

(The Canadian Press) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:54:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - A woman holds a poster of Sunni politicians Saleh al-Mutlaq , left, and Dhafir al-Ani, right, with the words 'down with comrades, long live Iraq,' in Arabic, at a protest in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi parliament speaker Ayad al-Samarai speaks during a news ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:13:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraqi parliament speaker Ayad al-Samarai speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS)

Iraqis protest in the central shrine city of Najaf on February ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:05:00 GMT

(AFP) - Iraqis protest in the central shrine city of Najaf on February 7 against the standing in the upcoming elections of some candidates with links to the outlawed Baath party. Iraqi MPs were gathering Sunday to debate a controversial decision to allow hundreds of candidates linked to executed dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath party to compete in next month's elections. Photo:Qassem Zein/AFP

Protesters hold X marked posters of Iraqi Sunni lawmakers Dhafir ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:20:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Protesters hold X marked posters of Iraqi Sunni lawmakers Dhafir al-Ani (R) and Saleh al-Mutlaq during a rally against the former Baath Party return in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad February 7, 2010. Iraq's Shi'ite parties held emotional demonstrations on Sunday and vowed to purge loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party as tensions over a list of candidates banned from a March election soared. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

A video posted on the www.iraq-moqawama.com website allegedly ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:02:00 GMT

(AFP) - A video posted on the www.iraq-moqawama.com website allegedly shows a hostage in US military uniform who appears to be a civilian contractor reported missing by the Pentagon. Radical Shiite Islamists who claim to have kidnapped the contractor of Iraqi origin said on Sunday they are also holding a second American hostage captured two years ago. Photo:/AFP

Protesters hold up placards during a rally against the former ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:31:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Protesters hold up placards during a rally against the former Baath Party return in Baghdad, February 7, 2010. Iraq's Shi'ite parties held emotional demonstrations on Sunday and vowed to purge loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party as tensions over a list of candidates banned from a March election soared. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Protesters hold up a banner which reads 'No No to the Baathists' ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:27:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Protesters hold up a banner which reads 'No No to the Baathists' during a rally against the former Baath Party return in Baghdad, February 7, 2010. Iraq's Shi'ite parties held emotional demonstrations on Sunday and vowed to purge loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party as tensions over a list of candidates banned from a March election soared. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

A protester holds up a poster symbolizing the U.S. flag which ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:26:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A protester holds up a poster symbolizing the U.S. flag which reads the word of 'Baath' during a rally against the former Baath Party return in Baghdad, February 7, 2010. Iraq's Shi'ite parties held emotional demonstrations on Sunday and vowed to purge loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party as tensions over a list of candidates banned from a March election soared. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Iraqi policemen frisk residents near the site of a rally against ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:24:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraqi policemen frisk residents near the site of a rally against the former Baath Party return in Baghdad, February 7, 2010. Iraq's Shi'ite parties held emotional demonstrations on Sunday and vowed to purge loyalists of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party as tensions over a list of candidates banned from a March election soared. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Pakistani Shiite Muslims carry coffins prior to offering funeral ...

(AFP) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:18:00 GMT

(AFP) - Pakistani Shiite Muslims carry coffins prior to offering funeral prayers in Karachi on February 6. A wave of political and sectarian violence sweeping Karachi threatens heavy financial losses in the country's economic hub, where analysts fear Islamists are bent on fanning maximum instability. Photo:Asif Hassan/AFP

In this undated image made from a video posted on a militant ...

(The Canadian Press) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:25:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - In this undated image made from a video posted on a militant website, a man believed to be missing civilian contractor Issa T. Salomi is seen in front of a banner reading Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, Imam Ali regiment. A Shiite militant group in Iraq has posted the Internet video showing an American it says it abducted and who appears to be a contractor reported missing by the U.S. military. The U.S. Department of Defense identified the missing civilian contractor as 60-year-old Issa T. Salomi and said he was last seen Jan. 23. In the video, the man says his abductors from the League of the Righteous are demanding the release of militants and the prosecution of Blackwater security contractors accused of killing 17 Iraqis in 2007. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS via APTN)

An Iraqi woman walks under the rain near a checkpoint in Baghdad. ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:37:00 GMT

(AFP) - An Iraqi woman walks under the rain near a checkpoint in Baghdad. Iraqi leaders on Saturday urged a panel of seven judges to issue a final ruling on 500 candidates barred from running in next month's general elections, before campaigning starts next week. Photo:Sabah Arar/AFP

Shiite rebels standing over a military tank they seized from ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - Shiite rebels standing over a military tank they seized from the Yemeni army in August 2009. Yemen has set a timetable for Shiite rebels to implement its terms for a ceasefire in their six-year-old uprising in the northern mountains after 28 people were reported killed in new clashes. Photo:/AFP

Yemen has set a timetable for Shiite rebels to implement its ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - Yemen has set a timetable for Shiite rebels to implement its terms for a ceasefire in their six-year-old uprising in the northern mountains after 28 people were reported killed in new clashes. Photo:/AFP

Yemeni soldiers raise their weapons in the air on the mountains ...

(AFP) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - Yemeni soldiers raise their weapons in the air on the mountains of Saada province where they are battling Huthi rebels. Yemen has set a timetable for Shiite rebels to implement its terms for a ceasefire in their six-year-old uprising in the northern mountains after 28 people were reported killed in new clashes. Photo:/AFP

An Iraqi policeman uses a metal detector to search the body ...

(Reuters) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:07:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An Iraqi policeman uses a metal detector to search the body of a victim killed in bombings in Kerbala, during a funeral in Najaf, 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad, February 6, 2010. Twin car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 145 others on Friday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, health officials said. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Iraqi policemen carry the coffin of a victim killed in bombings ...

(Reuters) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:54:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraqi policemen carry the coffin of a victim killed in bombings in Kerbala, during a funeral in Najaf, 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad, February 6, 2010. Twin car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 145 others on Friday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, health officials said. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)

An Iraqi woman walks past a damaged vehicle as people gather ...

(AFP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:08:00 GMT

(AFP) - An Iraqi woman walks past a damaged vehicle as people gather to inspect the site of a bomb attack in the holy city of Karbala, 110 kms (70 miles) south of Baghdad. The United States condemns a series of attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday. Photo:Mohammed Sawaf/AFP

Shiite Muslims mourn after a motorcycle bomb attack in Karachi. ...

(AFP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:25:00 GMT

(AFP) - Shiite Muslims mourn after a motorcycle bomb attack in Karachi. Suicide bombers rammed into a bus in Karachi then hit a hospital where casualties were rushed for treatment, killing 25 people in the second assault on Shiites in the Pakistani city in weeks. Photo:Asif Hassan/AFP

Shiite Muslims mourn after a motorcycle bomb attack in Karachi. ...

(AFP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:25:00 GMT

(AFP) - Shiite Muslims mourn after a motorcycle bomb attack in Karachi. Suicide bombers rammed into a bus in Karachi on Friday then hit a hospital where casualties were rushed for treatment, killing 25 people in the second assault on Shiites in the Pakistani city in weeks. Photo:Asif Hassan/AFP

People gather at the site of a bombing in the holy city of Karbala, ...

(The Canadian Press) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:13:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - People gather at the site of a bombing in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. A twin car bombing targeted a crowd of Shiite pilgrims packing a highway as they walked to a holy city south of Baghdad for a major religious ceremony. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Hadi Mizban)

Shiite Muslim pilgrims perform a ritual as they mark the major ...

(AFP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:15:00 GMT

(AFP) - Shiite Muslim pilgrims perform a ritual as they mark the major Shiite mourning ceremony of Arbaeen in the holy city of Karbala, 110 kms (70 miles) south of Baghdad, on February 4. A mortar bomb attack on the last day of the ceremony killed 41 Shiite pilgrims and wounded 140 on Friday in an atrocity blamed on Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein loyalists. Photo:Mohammed Sawaf/AFP

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seen here on February ...

(AFP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seen here on February 4, said Friday she is 'heartened' by an Iraqi decision to reinstate Sunni candidates and urged all parties to do nothing to undermine the legitimacy of elections. Photo:Mandel Ngan/AFP

Iraqi soldiers inspect the wreckage of vehicles at the scene ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:18:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraqi soldiers inspect the wreckage of vehicles at the scene of a car bomb attack in the holy city of Kerbala, about 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, February 5, 2010. At least 20 people were killed and 75 wounded on Friday when two car bombs blew up in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, hospital sources said. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)

An Iraqi soldier looks at destroyed vehicles after a car bomb ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:14:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An Iraqi soldier looks at destroyed vehicles after a car bomb attack in the holy city of Kerbala, about 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, February 5, 2010. At least 20 people were killed and 75 wounded on Friday when two car bombs blew up in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, hospital sources said. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST RELIGION)

Iraqi policemen work at the scene of a bomb attack in the holy ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:07:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Iraqi policemen work at the scene of a bomb attack in the holy city of Kerbala, about 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, February 5, 2010. At least 20 people were killed and 75 wounded on Friday when two car bombs blew up in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, hospital sources said. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)