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Fuad Masoum, the new president of Iraq and a veteran Kurdish politician, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad on July 24, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / ALI AL-SAADI)
by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 17, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi President Fuad Massoum reaffirmed his intention to push forward a process of national political reconciliation on Tuesday, following a meeting with the UN Special Envoy to Iraq Nikolay Mladenov. “[The Iraqi government] is seeking to take...
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New Iraqi President Fouad Massoum meets with Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations envoy to Iraq, at the Presidential Office in Baghdad, Sunday, July 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
by Amir Taheri | Aug 1, 2014 | Opinion
Iraqis certainly know how to surprise themselves, and everyone else. Just when many pundits claimed that the democratic experience had failed, Iraqis set the constitutional process in motion to form a new government. Last week they elected the speaker of their new...
