BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- In an exclusive interview, CNN Correspondent Nic Robertson talked with Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad Sunday. Below is a transcript of the interview: ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)-- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called testimony given by the U.S. top commander in Iraq and the U.S. ambassador to Iraq "realistic and objective." Gen. David Petraeus ...

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said U.S. troops might still be able to stay in Iraq as trainers beyond a 2011 withdrawal date, even though the country's political blocs ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office and a senior U.S. military official told CNN. Coalition ...

Iraq’s Parliament postponed a planned vote ... As Reuters notes, the postponement of last Monday’s vote came as Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was scheduled to meet with President ...