Reuters - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for a nationwide recount of votes from Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election, saying the country could return to violence if the demand were not met.

AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, locked in a tight battle with his main rival to form Iraq's next government, called on Sunday for a manual recount of votes cast in the country's March 7 polls.

AP - Iraq's president on Sunday called for a recount in this month's parliamentary elections, which have turned into a tight race between the prime minister and a secular rival amid accusations of fraud. A new count could further extend political wrangling in the contentious race.

AFP - Iraq's electoral commission rejected a call by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a manual recount of votes cast in the country's March 7 polls, commission chief Faraj al-Haidari told AFP on Sunday.

AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has called for a recount of votes cast in the country's March 7 general election, a statement Sunday from his office said.

AP - Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

AFP - Thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets of the US capital Saturday, on the seventh anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq in a show of frustration widely ignored by the media and public.

AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's main rival Iyad Allawi has inched ahead of the incumbent in the nationwide vote tally, updated results from Iraq's general election showed on Saturday.

AP - It was a day like any other day — except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten.

AFP - World football's governing body FIFA on Friday lifted its suspension on the Iraqi Football Association after a solution was found to a spat over alleged government interference, officials said.

AFP - Former top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice voiced regret on Friday at the bloody aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq but said the Bush administration had in the end "got it right" in the country.

AFP - Three people were killed, including an Iraqi soldier, and seven others wounded in violence in Baghdad on Friday, security officials said.

AP - Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she would "many times over liberate" Iraq again, but she regretted the Bush administration failed to work closer with Iraqis to rebuild the war-torn country.

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in combat in Baghdad.

AFP - An American soldier was killed in "combat operations" in Baghdad on Thursday, the US military said in a statement.

AFP - Iraq has signed an agreement to receive the first of two 250-million-dollar loans from the World Bank to help the country plug its budget deficit, the finance ministry said Thursday.