Tribal Coalition in Anbar Said to Be Crumbling
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BAGHDAD, June 10 -- A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq's troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter, according to an Anbar tribal leader and a U.S. military official familiar with tribal...
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As security concerns recede, Iraqi tribal chiefs turn to US for more mundane community needs.
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With the Lebanese government mired in political crisis, many of the countryâs institutions are crumbling but the army, battling Islamic militants, is a source of unity.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is struggling to get congressional approval for millions of dollars in aid to a tribal paramilitary group in the semiautonomous region of Pakistan where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have gained such a foothold that they have been able to launch destabilizing attacks on both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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About 200 militant supporters of a renegade tribal chieftain blamed for attacking security forces and the country's main gas pipelines surrendered to authorities in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, an official said.
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Sustained army operations in a tribal region near the Afghan border have put Al-Qaeda-linked militants on the run and crippled their ability to strike, a Pakistani general said.
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Negotiations between the interim Iraqi government and insurgent leaders who control Fallujah city have broken down, Iraqi officials said yesterday, as more than 10,000
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Confidence in the transitional government is rapidly bleeding away as Somalia becomes a more violent place.
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Police rounded up clansmen in Anbar province Monday as a US-backed tribal leader suggested a teenager who carried out a suicide bombing against the anti-al-Qaeda fighters had help from inside the group
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The U.S. military is taking a cue from its Anbar success and enlisting the help of Shi'ite tribes. Will the strategy take hold?
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Iraqi tribal leader Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, who founded the Anbar Salvation Council, also known as the  Anbar Awakening movement, one year ago today, was assassinated in Anbar province yesterday by a roadside bomb. On July 30, he spoke at his residential compound in Ramadi with Washington Post...
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Government and opposition leaders soften their stances as the violence begins to wane
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Growing impatience with the slow pace of work to improve basic services like electricity and water could threaten security gains in Iraq's Anbar province, a former al Qaeda stronghold, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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A key leader of an alliance of Sunni Arab tribes that was instrumental in pushing al Qaeda out of Iraq's western Anbar province was killed in a roadside bomb attack on Thursday, police said.
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A senior American commander in Iraq said Tuesday that U.S.-led military operations are "stifling" the insurgency in western Anbar province but are not strong enough to defeat it.
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BAGHDAD - A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq's rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown occurs just as Congress and the White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here.
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Tribes in one of Iraq's most volatile provinces have joined together to fight the insurgency there, and they have called on the government and the U.S.-led military coalition for weapons, a prominent tribal leader said Monday.