Iraq will next week provide foreign oil and gas companies with details of the contracts under which it hopes the companies will help boost the country's oil output by 1.5 million barrels per day.

President George Bush seeks to ease concerns over his strategy for rebuilding Iraq in a prime-time national address. He emphasized major events in the planned reconstruction of Iraq, beginning ...

Iraq, long hit by decades of violence that shrank its regional role, has now turned from a victim of conflict into a country reclaiming its influential position in the Middle East, the top UN ...

UNITED NATIONS, April 13 -- U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to wrap up his mission to salvage Iraq's political transition on Wednesday and to publicly outline elements of a new ...

Rep. Dave Obey (D-Wis.) outlined a new plan for an Iraq funding bill in private meetings Thursday afternoon, congressional aides said. The plan would split the now vetoed supplemental spending ...

On Monday, President Bush will outline the steps involved in the Iraqi transition of power. William Cohen and Lord George Robertson join NPR's Scott Simon to discuss what measures the president ...

The Republican-led Senate has called on President Bush to outline the administration's strategy for withdrawing troops from Iraq and provide members of Congress with more complete reports on the war.

The Bush administration is set to begin its accelerated bidding program for work in Iraq, but delays in getting U.S. funds for reconstruction already are crimping the oil production crucial to the ...

A week after first refugees crossed from north-east Syria into Iraq, the arrivals to northern Iraq continue. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, teams on the ground report that of this morning more than ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - President Bush will outline U.S. beliefs about Iraq and its intentions for the world when he speaks before the United Nations on Thursday, according to Vice President Dick Cheney.