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Iraqis gathering at the checkpoint that was bombed in Hillah on Sunday
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Haider al-Abadi and Qasem Soleimani
Iran Sends Soleimani to Baghdad to Support Al-Abadi’s Reform Plan
Baghdad- Iraqi official told Asharq Al-Awsat that Iran has delegated the Commander of Iran’s al-Quds Force and the responsible for the Iraqi file, Brigade Qasem Soleimani, to Baghdad in line with the political and economic reforms that the Iraqi Prime Minister...Caption:
From R-L, Nuri Al-Maliki, Midhat Al-Mahmoud, Osama Al-Nujaifi and Iyad Allawi are seen during a swearing-in ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, September 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Iraq: No agreement on interior and defense ministers
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s foremost Sunni and Shi’ite political blocs remain unable to reach a compromise over filling the defense and interior ministerial portfolios, as resentment continues to build among Iraqi Sunnis over Nuri Al-Maliki’s...Caption:
New Iraqi government officials participate in a swearing-in ceremony in Baghdad September 8, 2014. Iraq’s parliament approved a new government headed by Haider al-Abadi as prime minister on Monday night, in a bid to rescue Iraq from collapse, with sectarianism and Arab-Kurdish tensions on the rise. REUTERS/Hadi Mizban/Pool (IRAQ – Tags: POLITICS)
Opinion: Iraq’s New Government and its Old Faces
The new government in Baghdad can be said to include all the old faces involved in Iraq’s crisis—and it doesn’t even include the the defense or interior ministers yet, who are yet to be named. Looking at the new government—in particular the new vice presidents...Caption:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki (center) greets lawmakers at the first session of the newly elected parliament in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)