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