BBC News | In Depth | Conflict with Iraq | World EditionVisit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.Iraq fails to agree election law- August 6, 2008 Iraq's parliament adjourns for a month after failing to agree on a provincial election law, viewed as a key political reform.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7545868.stm Mehdi Army 'stops carrying arms'- August 6, 2008 A spokesman tells the BBC that, for the time being, the militia loyal to Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr will not carry arms.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7545182.stm Kurdish novel re-writes rules- August 6, 2008 A leading novelist's latest work could mark a new era for Kurdish literature, writes Kereem Abdulrahman.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7535854.stm UK Basra deal claims 'not true'- August 5, 2008 Des Browne says reports UK soldiers delayed helping Iraqi troops in Basra because of a deal with militiamen are "simply not true".http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7543763.stm Iraq Palestinians to go to Europe- August 5, 2008 A group of about 200 Palestinians stranded for two years on the Iraq-Syria border are to be resettled in Sweden and Iceland.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7543219.stm Health care concern at Iraq jail- August 5, 2008 A US soldier tells BBC News his concerns over the health care provided to Iraqi detainees in the biggest US detention centre in Iraq, Camp Bucca.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7540555.stm Rise in Iraqi detainee releases- August 2, 2008 The US military says it has freed more than 10,000 Iraqi detainees so far in 2008, more than in the whole of 2007.http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7538681.stm |