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File photo showing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki speaking during a news conference in Baghdad. (Reuters)

Opinion: Maliki’s Last Option

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 6, 2014 | Opinion

Gaza’s crisis will not succeed in diverting attention away from the wars in Syria and Iraq. Indeed, these two wars, particularly Iraq, may alter the course of the region, and Iraqis may finally succeed in achieving a safe and smooth transition to a new government...

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki (L) walks with the Sunni Speaker of Parliament Salim Al-Jabouri during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, July 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq: Maliki accused of threatening Shi’a alliance break-up

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 3, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s most senior Shi’ite cleric called on the country’s politicians to form a national unity government on Friday, as fears grew of cracks in the Shi’ite-led National Alliance, the largest parliamentary bloc in the country, over the weekend....

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The Game of Carving up a Nation

by Amir Taheri | Jul 29, 2014 | Book Reviews

With the latest crisis pushing Iraq back onto the world’s headlines, it is no surprise that a number of books examining Iraqi politics and history have appeared or reappeared in bookshops across the West. These books could be grouped in three categories. In the first...

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Members of Iraqi Special Operations Forces patrol looking for militants of Islamic State in a neighborhood in Ramadi. (Reuters)

After Iraqi army crumbles, Maliki turns to state TV for help

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 28, 2014 | Media

Baghdad, Reuters—Iraq’s state television is working overtime to persuade Iraqis to help Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki confront an Al-Qaeda offshoot that has seized wide tracts of the country, but its unifying call has been blunted by his sectarian reputation....

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Fuad Masoum, Iraq’s newly elected president, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, on July 24, 2014. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)

Iraq picks president, but no movement on prime minister

by Hamza Mustafa | Jul 25, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—It was one step forward and two steps back for Iraq on Thursday as parliament successfully elected a new president, but appeared no closer to choosing a prime minister or forming a new government. Lawmakers elected veteran Kurdish politician...