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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)
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A man rides his motor bike past a large election campaign banner showing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki (R) along a street in the central Shiite Muslim shrine city of Karbala, on April 6, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED SAWAF)
Iraqi PM’s opponents seek to deny him a third term
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Opponents of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki broadened the coalition of groups seeking to prevent him winning a third term in office on Monday, as the campaign for the parliamentary elections at the end of this month reaches its peak....Caption:
Ammar al-Hakim (L), leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), meets with Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, May 8, 2013. REUTERS/Haider Ala
Iraq: National Alliance leaders demand action on terrorism
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The political committee of the National Iraqi Alliance held its first meeting in three months on Tuesday, with coalition leaders demanding Iraqi’s prime minister take action over recent terrorist attacks. The meeting was chaired by...Caption:
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 and Hakim demand Maliki resignation
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Two of Iraq’s most prominent Shi’ite figures, Moqtada Al-Sadr and Ammar Al-Hakim, have stepped up their criticism of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s passive reaction to the wave of bombings that struck Baghdad and several other...Caption:
Iraqi army soldiers stand guard at the Abu–Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. Sept. 2, 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)