Iraqi parliament faces urgent national issues (AP)

Iraq's government approves security pact with US (AP)
AP - Iraq's Cabinet overwhelmingly approved a security pact with the United States on Sunday, ending prolonged negotiations to allow American forces to remain for three more years in the...

Iraq SOFA Passed. Troops Will Stay.
Well, they didn’t wait until the last minute to pass this thing, and thank god for that. The last thing Bush needed was not getting this agreement in place and having to deal with...

Iraqi Cabinet approves security pact with US (AP)
AP - An Iraqi government spokesman says the Cabinet has approved a security pact with the United States that will allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three years after their U.N....

Aide: Iraq, US agree on final security pact draft (AP)
AP - A senior aide to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says Iraq and the U.S. are now in agreement over a final draft of a security pact.

New Iraq pact rules out US troops past 2011 (AP)
AP - The proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact removes language authorizing Iraq to ask U.S. soldiers to stay beyond 2011 and bans cross-border attacks from Iraqi soil, according to a copy of the...