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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi addresses members of the UN Security Council, Wednesday, September 24, 2014, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

“Rebellious” Abadi decisions cause rift with Maliki: source

by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 28, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Attempts by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi to distance himself from the legacy of his predecessor Nuri Al-Maliki have created a rift between the two that is hindering attempts to appoint ministers to key posts, an informed source told...

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Iraqi minister of transportation, Hadi Al-Ameri, inspects volunteer fighters who joined the Iraqi army to fight against jihadist militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Al-Othaim in Diyala province, north of the capital Baghdad, on August 3, 2014. (AFP Photo/Amer Al-Saadi)

Hadi Al-Ameri: A Militia Leader Torn between Washington and Tehran

by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 25, 2014 | Profiles

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—When the leader of the Badr Organization, Hadi Al-Ameri, became Iraq’s minister of transport during former prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s second term in office, no one from Iraq’s political class or the major international political players...

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Iraq’s Sunni Parliament Speaker Salim Al-Jabouri speaks during a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Jabouri: ISIS fighting “war of extermination” against Iraq

by Ma'ad Fayad | Sep 19, 2014 | Interviews

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s new parliametary speaker Salim Al-Jabouri faces a tough task heading the country’s top legislative body at a time when political blocs are jockeying for position behind the Haider Al-Abadi government to confront the...

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New Iraqi President Fouad Massoum meets with Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations envoy to Iraq, at the Presidential Office in Baghdad, Sunday, July 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Masoum: Iraq must open a new page with the Arab world

by Ma'ad Fayad | Sep 13, 2014 | Interviews

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi President Fuad Masoum now finds himself preoccupied with a dozen different issues where previously he had been engrossed with just one; the formation of the next government. Asharq Al-Awsat caught up with Iraq’s president just days...

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Tariq Aziz (AFP Photo)

Opinion: Giving Iraq a Stay of Execution

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 9, 2014 | Opinion

In 2007, TIME magazine reported how Sultan Hashim Ahmad Al-Ta’i, the defense minister during Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s era, escaped execution just five hours before he was scheduled to be hanged. Ta’i’s life was spared after his American...