Final results are still awaited a week after Iraqis voted in a referendum on the constitution. Most observers assume the document was approved. The preamble to the constitution contains language that ...

Jan. 7, 2007 — -- There are 1,100 employees in the U.S. embassy in Iraq, all living in the middle of a war among and against Arabic-speaking enemies. Of those embassy employees, the Iraq Study ...

(AFP) -- Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has traditionally been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, mostly in homes but also in some schools and during church ...

The Senate on Monday overwhelmingly passed the fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill after weeks of debate failed to find consensus on Iraq withdrawal language. The bill, which authorizes more than ...

Washington (Reuters) - What do you call a situation where 3,000 citizens of a country kill each other every month through bombing, shooting and beheading? If the country is Iraq, it depends on who ...

Part of the daily struggle for soldiers and Marines in Iraq is communicating with civilians and suspected insurgents. Few military personnel have enough fluency with Iraqi Arabic to be easily ...

The Iraq supplemental spending bill to be voted on Thursday by the House Appropriations Committee lacks enforcement language that some of Congress’s most liberal members wanted to see. Members of the ...

Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighboring Syria for centuries In this picture taken May 10, artist and museum curator Saliwa Shamoun ...

Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria for centuries — Waleed AL-KHALID Iraq's shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian ...