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Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi speaks to the media in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 25, 2013. (AP)

Osama Al-Nujaifi: Iraq’s Future President?

by Hamza Mustafa | Oct 6, 2013 | Profiles

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Politics in Iraq is not the art of the possible. Rather, Iraqi politics is closer to the art of the impossible, an all-or-nothing game that offers players the chance to either reach the pinnacle of political power, or see their ambitions...

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An Iraqi Kurdish man leaves a voting booth before casting his ballot during the Kurdistan’s legislative election at a polling station on September 21, 2013 in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil. (AFP/ PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Kurdish KDP official “sorry” for PUK election failure

by Ma'ad Fayad | Sep 25, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Kurdistan parliamentary elections’ preliminary results have drawn a mixed reaction from supporters of the main parties. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) said they would have preferred their party to have had a large enough makority to...

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Employees of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) take part in vote counting at an analysis centre in Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, about 230 miles north of Baghdad, on September 22, 2013. (REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani)

Kurdistan parliamentary elections preliminary results show KDP ahead

by Sherzad Shekhani | Sep 23, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The preliminary results of Saturday’s parliamentary elections in Kurdistan have suggested that the opposition Movement for Change (Gorran) has made significant gains in areas known to be strongholds of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)....

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An Iraqi Kurd woman casts her vote into a ballot box during regional parliamentary elections at a polling station in Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, September 21, 2013. (Reuters)

Iraqi Kurds head to the polls

by Sherzad Shekhani | Sep 21, 2013 | Middle East

Suleimaniyah, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s Kurds went to the polls on Saturday to vote for a new parliament, with analysts expecting the results to produce a massive upheaval in the makeup of the Kurdistan Region Government (KRG). These are the first parliamentary elections...

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A member of the Kurdish Peshmerga battalions shows his ink-stained finger after voting at a polling station in the northern Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah on September 19, 2013, in the region’s legislative elections. (AFP)

Kurds prepare for elections as campaigning ends

by Sherzad Shekhani | Sep 19, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—With the election campaign in Kurdistan drawing to an end on Thursday, a decision by the election commission in Suleimaniyah to allow journalists to cover only six polling stations has raised concerns. Parliamentary elections are set to take...