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The United Nations special representative to Iraq appealed on Tuesday to Iraqi officials to meet a series of deadlines in what he called the "Herculean task" of holding national elections in a little more than two months.

"Now there are less than 10 weeks available to organize these elections, which is truly a Herculean task," Ad Melkert told a news conference at the Independent High Election Commission (IHEC). "I hope everyone is aware IHEC is under tremendous pressure to deliver credible elections in a very short period of time."

Obama administration officials breathed a collective sigh of relief Sunday when Iraq's parliament, after weeks of delays, approved a law to hold national elections in January, very likely permitting a major post-election withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq.

Iraqi security forces arrested five suspected terrorists today in two security operations.

After nearly a dozen delays and a final, rowdy session, Iraq's parliament on Sunday night passed a law setting national elections for January, averting for now a political crisis that threatened to unravel the country's slow progress toward stability and delay the U.S. troop drawdown.

Iraq's electoral commission on Monday submitted a proposal to hold national elections on Jan.

Parliament will supervise ethnic carve-up of power in oil-rich enclave to bring it into national elections A demonstration in Kirkuk in 2006 where Turkomans insisted on an ethnically mixed city.

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Iraq's parliament has passed a long-delayed electoral law, paving the way for nationwide elections.

The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is going to have a new dam with a storage capacity of 39 million cubic meters of water.

Iraq's electoral authorities have called for polls due next January to be delayed after parliament failed once more to agree on how to hold the vote.

Iraqi lawmakers blew another deadline Thursday as they continued haggling over an election law that's crucial to the country's political stability and to the Obama administration's plans for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops.

During a ceremony held at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, on Nov 3, Maj.

Iraqi lawmakers have only a day left to agree on a new bill that would enable the country to hold key parliament elections in January, according to remarks Wednesday by the country's election commission chairman.

A bomb exploded near a mosque in Kirkuk on Thursday morning, as Iraqi lawmakers made a last-ditch effort to reach a compromise on voting in the disputed city.

Runway approach lights, along with a digital airport surveillance radar system, various navigational aids and other equipment, were part of the suite of equipment officially turned over to the Iraqi air force in a ceremony Oct.

BAGHDAD: Iraq's electoral body warned Sunday that polls set for January will have to be delayed if procedures are not ironed out in the next two days, as a parliamentary vote on an election law was postponed once more.

By REBECCA SANTANA November 01, 2009, 1:31 PM / Iraqi politicians are dueling with new hostility over the fate of Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both self-ruled Kurds in the north and Iraq's central government want to control.

A bomb attached to a bicycle killed five people in southern Iraq on Sunday, and at least five others were killed in violence across the country, police said.

Iraqi lawmakers again put off a vote on a key electoral bill on Thursday after failing to reach a quorum when a compromise version was presented, raising the prospect of January polls being delayed.

In an Oct. 28 story about Iraq's election law, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said the Kurds demand the annexation of the northern Kirkuk region and would not accept any other solution.