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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, center, waits for US Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of a meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Iraq: Maliki facing deadline to drop premiership bid

by Hamza Mustafa | Jun 26, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Prominent Iraqi Shi’a parties have given the ruling State of Law coalition until the end of Thursday to drop its nomination of Nuri Al-Maliki for a controversial third term as prime minister or face rival leadership bids from within the...

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Members of the Iraqi Emergency Response Brigade (ERB) hold a position behind a wall on June 24, 2014 in the western city of Ramadi in the Anbar province, where government forces along with Sunni anti-Al-Qaeda militia Sahwa (Awakening) fight against anti-government militants, including from the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). (AFP Photo)

Iraq: Tribal forces brace for ISIS advance on Haditha Dam

by Hamza Mustafa | Jun 24, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—As Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters seek to gain control of the strategically important Haditha Dam in western Iraq, local Sunni Arab tribesmen have pledged to confront the terrorist group despite also opposing the central...

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Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani (R) greets U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan autonomous region, on June 24, 2014. (Reuters/Brendan Smialowski)

Kerry calls on Kurds to support Baghdad

by Hamza Mustafa | Jun 24, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—US Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with Iraqi Kurdish leaders in Erbil on Tuesday, calling on the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to stand with the embattled central government in Baghdad against the advancing...

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Volunteers for the newly formed “Peace Brigades” participate in a parade in the Shi’ite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, June 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq’s Sadrists defend military parade amid fears of sectarian war

by Hamza Mustafa | Jun 23, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—A prominent Shi’ite movement in Iraq has defended a military parade it organized in the country’s capital Baghdad on Saturday amid heightened fears of widespread sectarian conflict breaking out across the country. The event, organized by the...

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Anbar tribal chief Ali Hatim Al-Suleimani talks to Asharq Al-Awsat. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

There is a “tribal revolution” in Iraq: Anbar tribal chief

by Hamza Mustafa | Jun 17, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—A prominent Anbar tribal chief has denied that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is responsible for the recent unrest in Iraq, portraying the situation as a “tribal revolution” against the government of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, in...