Recently added articles from APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East:

IRAQ - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Iraq, Part 34 - US Security Deal.

Jun 09, 2008 ... With terrorism being a focal point of a proposed Iraqi-American security pact, US Ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker on June 5 said the Bush administration was not trying to set up permanent military bases in Iraq. Leading tense talks with Iraq on the issue of further US military ...

US Reforming Iraq Prisons.

Jun 09, 2008 ... As a further step towards Iraqi sovereignty, the US is incorporating the American-run detention system into its larger counter-insurgency strategy before handing its prisons in Iraq over to the government. In reforming its prisons in Iraq, the US is also seeking to help the Baghdad ...