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Residents gather to protest near the house of prominent Sunni Muslim lawmaker Ahmed al-Alwani, in the centre of Ramadi, on December 29, 2013. (Reuters/Ali al-Mashhadani)
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Dec 22, 2014 | Opinion
There is a widespread conviction among the majority of Sunnis in Iraq that Iraqi MP Ahmed Al-Alwani’s death sentence was rooted in sectarianism of Nuri Al-Maliki’s government, which persecuted many of its opponents. Maliki’s government accused all those it saw as...
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ISIS militants with a captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, in June 2014 (AP Photo)
by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 24, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Prime Minster Haider Al-Abadi launched a major re-organization of Iraq’s top military leadership on Tuesday, in a step many observers say was aimed at defusing growing public anger over Iraqi military defeats at the hands of radical...
