The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the notoriously opaque and graft-ridden bureaucracy here.
The dismissals, which were confirmed by senior Iraqi and American government officials on Sunday and Monday, came as estimates of official Iraqi corruption soared.
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Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of...
The US Central Command (Centcom) said it targeted Iran as it posed an "imminent threat" in...
