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Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi speaks to the media in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 25, 2013. (AP)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 4, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Prominent Iraqi Sunni figure and Mutahidoun coalition leader Osama Al-Nujaifi has said that he will not seek another term as speaker of parliament if Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki abandons his attempts to secure a controversial third term in...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki casting his vote at a polling station in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on April 30, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / ALI AL-SAADI)
by Hamza Mustafa | May 25, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The largest of Iraq’s Sunni political blocs announced on Saturday that it will form a new coalition to negotiate the terms under which it will participate in Iraq’s next government. The Mutahidoun bloc, led by incumbent speaker of parliament...
