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Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi addresses the media during a joint news conference with Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani in Irbil, April 6, 2015. (Reuters)

Iraqi Govt. Ready for Dialogue on Condition of Canceling Kurdish Referendum

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 3, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad – The Iraqi government on Monday responded to calls by Kurdistan to engage in dialogue, by calling on the province to cancel the results of the independence referendum, which was held last month. In a brief statement, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s...

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Iraq’s Vice President Nouri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

Baghdad’s Reform to Halt Iraq’s Secession

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 30, 2017 | Opinion

Give the Kurds a real stake in Baghdad’s government, and then they will let go of the separation idea. Right now, they are conferred honorary posts without powers just like many components of the Iraqi state, which was founded, post the invasion, on a participatory...

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Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani. (Reuters)

Barzani: Maliki’s Crime against Kurdish Region Worse than Saddam’s Anfal Operation

by Ghassan Charbel | Aug 30, 2017 | Interviews

Irbil – President of the Kurdish Iraqi Region Masoud Barzani expressed his disappointment and “bitterness” towards former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Baghdad’s treatment of Kurds during his time in office. Barzani told Asharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday that...

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Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki. Asharq Al-Awsat Arabic

Iraq: Fierce Electoral Struggle in Islamic Dawa Party

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 28, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad- Indicators show a fierce and early electoral struggle in Iraq’s Dawa Party, the ruling party since 2005. This struggle is mainly between Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Vice President Nouri al-Maliki. Suspending party membership of Baghdad’s...

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President of Iraq and a veteran Kurdish politician Fuad Masum. AFP

Iraqi President: ‘Kurdistan’s Referendum Does Not Mean Independence’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 2, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad- Iraqi President Fuad Masum said Tuesday that a planned referendum on the proposed secession of the northern Kurdish region from Iraq does not amount to a “declaration of independence.” “Holding a referendum based on mutual understanding does not amount to a...