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Iraqi women wait behind a window to receive their electronic voter ID cards in the capital Baghdad on February 25, 2014, ahead of legislative elections in April. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Iraq: Nearly 3,000 female candidates expected in parliament elections

by Afrah Shawqi | Mar 8, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Campaigning for the Iraqi parliamentary elections, scheduled for April 30, will begin in just a few days. This election is seeing the widest participation by women to date—there are almost 3,000 female candidates, all of whom are promising...

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Iraqi vice-president Iyad Allawi speaks to reporters on December 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq: Iyad Allawi denies retirement rumors

by Ma'ad Fayad | Feb 12, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Accord party, has confirmed he has no intention to retire from politics, saying he will lead the new Wataniya bloc in the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place on...

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki gives a joint press conference with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (unseen) in Baghdad about the situation in Iraq and Syria on January 13, 2014. (AFP/Ahmed Saad)

Maliki’s Last Stand?

by Judith Yaphe | Feb 6, 2014 | The Majalla Magazine

Iraq is only months away from its quadrennial national election for its Council of Representatives, scheduled for April 30. As in most countries with relatively open elections, candidates and factions should be vying for supporters, negotiating coalitions and setting...

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An Iraqi policeman checks a car at a checkpoint in Baghdad on December 16, 2013, as attacks continued to strike in and around the city (AFP Photo/Ali Al-Saadi)

Iraq: Assailants attack house of leading Sunni cleric

by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 16, 2013 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Unknown gunmen attacked the house of leading Iraqi Sunni cleric Abdul Malik Al-Saadi on Sunday, one day after he called for a boycott of upcoming parliamentary elections, dismissing them as “illegitimate” in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat....

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Female Kurdish deputies are pictured outside the Kurdistan parliament building in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on November 6, 2013. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

Iraq: Kurdish parties to form single electoral list

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 10, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sixteen Kurdish political blocs and parties from Kirkuk, 150 miles (235 kilometers) north of Baghdad, said they would stand for the forthcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections on the same electoral list, a Kurdish source told Asharq Al-Awsat. In...