EU Politics Today: EU Iraq War News

Obama: war on Taliban 'urgent'

20 Jul 2008 23:52 GMT

... 36,000 already there and intends to press European countries to become more engaged in the ... of a week-long tour that takes in Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Europe. Amid ... bid to transform Berlin into the world capital Germania. "For him Hitler it was the ...

German hostages freed after 12 days of PKK captivity

20 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT

... The three mountaineers, part of a 13-member German team climbing Mount Ar, were seized by ... the Associated Press by telephone from northern Iraq after the abduction that the group wanted ... ground offensive. Turkey, the US and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist organization. ...

Brown warns Iran to end 'totally abhorrent' threat to destroy Israel

20 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT

... weapons. In the first speech by a British prime minister to the Israeli parliament, Brown ... on Saturday in Geneva. Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, has given Iran two ... West Bank, following a one-day visit to Iraq, that was carefully balanced to appeal to ...

Obama uses crucial foreign tour to promise more troops for Afghanistan

20 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT

Iraq playing for best deal

20 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT

... out the Americans quickly, but instead give Iraqis a major voice in how long U.S. ... on Iraq. The flap began Saturday when Germany's Der Spiegel magazine released an interview quoting ... to do: exploit Obama's position on the war to force the Bush administration into accepting ...

Sunnis end political boycott, taking 6 cabinet posts

20 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT

... Abdul Kareem al-Sammarai, a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest party in Tawafiq. ... 2010. In a recent interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Maliki said that goal ... his own objectives. The legal basis for British and U.S. troops to be in Iraq ...

Germany gains final slot in Olympic tournament

20 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT

... An extreme sport that involves leaping across a gaping crevasse is gaining in popularity. Iraqi fencers practice their sport, discuss life in a war zone and share what they hope to achieve at the Para... For China's top ...

Roger Cohen: Sobriety, Herr Obama

20 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT

... work to be done. Obama arrives in Europe at an all-shift moment. A U.S. diplomat ... time horizon" for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq; casualties in Afghanistan have risen above Iraqi ... visions." Obama can galvanize this change moment. Capitalizing on shifts (Israel-Syria, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Iran) will ...

Obama: Step up Taliban fight

20 Jul 2008 23:15 GMT

... comments while on campaign-season trip to two war zones, in addition to the Middle East and Europe. The Illinois senator is due to accept ... Nation," although details of his stop to Iraq were withheld for security reasons. Obama, Hagel ...

Obama meets with Afghan president

20 Jul 2008 23:15 GMT

... Hamid Karzai at his palace in the capital.

Transcript: Adm. Mullen on 'FOX News Sunday'

20 Jul 2008 23:15 GMT

... WALLACE: President Bush and Iraqi prime minister Maliki announced Friday that they ... Prime Minister Maliki was quoted in a German magazine this weekend saying he thinks that ... consider Iraq the front line in the war on terror and may, in fact, be ...

Der Spiegel Stands By Maliki Interview

20 Jul 2008 23:14 GMT

... visit to the Middle East and the War on Terror in Afghanistan. | A daily ... invasion, the war wears on. (CBS/AP) A German magazine which published an interview with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stating his support ...

Maliki backs Obama's exit plan

20 Jul 2008 23:14 GMT

... IRAQI Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki yesterday appeared to ... a tour of the Middle East and Europe in a week that is freighted with ... talks about 16 months," Mr Maliki told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine. "That, we think, would ...

US adopts a foreign policy

20 Jul 2008 23:14 GMT

... uranium enrichment. This was a clear and vital difference, we were told only a short ... its first couldn't be starker. What of Iraq? Obama's position has long been that troops ... in Arabia as it has been in Europe for the past half-century? Would this not ...

Kurdish rebels release 3 German climbers

20 Jul 2008 23:14 GMT

... Kurdish rebels release 3 German climbers seized during trek in eastern Turkey ... people dead. Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist organization. ... reported. The PKK uses strongholds in northern Iraq to wage cross-border raids. Turkey has conducted ...