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Iraqi security forces patrol a street in Baghdad’s commercial district of Karrada on August 11, 2014 as security measures have been reinforced across the capital after Iraq’s prime minister said he would sue the president in a desperate bid to cling to his job. A defiant Nuri al-Maliki made his shock announcement after three days of US strikes against jihadist militants in the north of Iraq and in spite of mounting calls for him to step aside. AFP PHOTO / SABAH ARAR