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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki (center) greets lawmakers at the first session of the newly elected parliament in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq: Allawi, Nujaifi and Maliki offered VP posts

by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 6, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s outgoing prime minister and speaker of parliament have been offered the posts of vice president, along with Iraqiya bloc leader Iyad Allawi, as Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi seeks to announce a new government...

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Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad on August 25, 2014. (Reuters/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud)

Talks on new Iraqi government collapse

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 31, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Talks between the Sunni Iraqi Forces Alliance and the Shi’ite National Alliance on the formation of a new Iraqi government led by Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi collapsed on Saturday. Salman Al-Jumaili, head of the Sunni delegation...

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Ammar al-Hakim (L), leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr hold a news conference in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, May 8, 2013. (REUTERS/Haider Ala.)

Iraq: Sadr calls for new regional foreign policy

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 30, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Shi’ite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr called on Baghdad to pursue a new regional foreign policy with the formation of a new government led by Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi. “We must open up to the other countries [in the region] to...

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A file picture taken on February 5, 2011 shows outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki listening to a question during an interview in Baghdad, Iraq. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Maliki claims to have “Plan B” if government talks fail

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 28, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s outgoing Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki said on Wednesday he was prepared to form a new government from among Iraq’s Shi’ite parties if ongoing talks on the shape of the new government fail. Speaking in his weekly national address,...

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Shi’ite fighters, from the brigades of peace loyal to Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr take part in field training in Najaf, August 23, 2014. (REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani)

Iraqi politicians express support for federalism

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 24, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—A decade-old proposal by US Vice-President Joe Biden to divide Iraq into three federal states is attracting fresh attention in the wake of sectarian attacks that have thrown the process of forming a new government into doubt. In an article...