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...
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...