BAGHDAD,(Gulf.News) - The relationship between Kurdish and Arab political forces in Baghdad is on the verge of slipping down a dangerous slope if the two parties cannot solve a number of pending issues, Iraqi military officials and analysts warned.

WASHINGTON, (AP) - A top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Tuesday that troops have al-Qaida on the run but will never completely be finished chasing them "because they may always come back." 

BAGHDAD,(AP) - The latest squabble between the central government and Kurdish authorities — a dispute over Iraq's Saddam Hussein-era flag — reached parliament Monday, when the Sunni Arab speaker of the 275-seat house met with senior lawmakers to find a way out of the crisis.
The Kurdistan region had mostly flown the Iraqi national flag along with its own since its creation under Western protection in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War. But the Iraq flag carries a negative association for many Kurds, who remember Saddam's forces hoisting it during campaigns of persecution and poison gas.
 

Baghdad, (VOI) – The Iraqi parliament voted by majority on Tuesday over a draft to modify the nation's flag by removing the three stars and keeping the words Allahu Akbar, or God is Great, a legislator from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC) said.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday he is "determined" that "Chemical Ali" and two other cohorts of Saddam Hussein be hanged for genocide against ethnic Kurds.