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Employees from the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) count votes at an analysis centre in Baghdad May 9, 2014. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)

Iraq: Shi’ite Alliance deadlocked over Maliki endorsement

by Hamza Mustafa | May 9, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s largest Shi’ite electoral bloc remained deadlocked over renewing Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s term in office, as early polling results suggested that his State of Law Coalition, a former member of the Shi’ite bloc, is on course...

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An Iraqi election commission official pulls ballot boxes at a polling station in the capital, Baghdad, on May 8, 2014, following the country’s general elections. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Iraq off the Agenda

by James Denselow | May 8, 2014 | Majalla Blogs

The worst violence in six years defined the backdrop for the Iraqi elections in April. The vote, the first to take place since the US troop withdrawal in 2011, briefly pushed the beleaguered country back onto the news agenda. Before then, it seemed that only...

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Workers from the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) count votes at an analysis center in Baghdad on May 3, 2014. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)

Iraq: Maliki ignores ISCI leader calls to reform National Alliance

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 4, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki rejected calls from the leader of the Shi’a Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) to reform the National Iraqi Alliance on Saturday. ISCI leader Ammar Al-Hakim called for the recreation of the Alliance, an...

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Election commission officials stand near ballot boxes as they talk during the counting of votes in the central city of Karbala on May 2, 2014 following the country’s general elections. (AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)

Iraq: Ballot count underway, with parties no closer to forming ruling coalition

by Hamza Mustafa | May 3, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the Independent Higher Electoral Commission (IHEC) continues the difficult task of counting Iraqis’ votes, the post-election political scene remained fractured as parties began the potentially lengthy process of forming a coalition...

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A handout picture released by the Prime Minister’s Office shows Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki casting his ballot during the Iraqi legislative election at a polling station in the green zone in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 30, 2014. (EPA/PRIME MINISTER)

Iraq: No signs of Maliki–Mutahidoun post-election rapprochement

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 1, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Erbil and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The UN Security Council called for the Iraqi leadership “to engage as quickly as possible, to form a government that represents the will and sovereignty of the Iraqi people,” after the polls closed in Wednesday’s legislative...