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An Iraqi man reads a local newspaper the day after results revealed that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki won the most seats in parliamentary elections, in Baghdad on May 20, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Tension mounts in Baghdad after initial election results announced

by Hamza Mustafa | May 20, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s electoral authorities announced the preliminary results of the country’s parliamentary elections on Monday amid mounting tension in the capital. Incumbent prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition fell short of an outright...

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Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr delivers a speech from the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on February 18, 2014. Al-Sadr slammed Iraq’s government as corrupt and headed by a “dictator” while calling on citizens to vote, just days after announcing his exit from politics. (AFP PHOTO/Haidar Hamdani)

Iraq: Sadrist resignations threaten new political crisis

by Hamza Mustafa | Feb 18, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—A number of Sadrist MPs have resigned from the Iraqi parliament following Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr’s decision to resign from politics last week, threatening to plunge Iraq into another political crisis just months before planned...