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This past week, Iraq surpassed the previous record for the country that has gone the longest between holding a parliamentary election and forming a government.This past week, Iraq surpassed the previous record for the country that has gone the... more
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If no Iraqi government has been cobbled together by September 8 – and few expect it will –it will have been more than half a year since Iraqis voted.If no Iraqi government has been cobbled together by September 8 – and few expect... more
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Vice President Joe Biden paid a surprise visit to Iraq on the fourth of July to salute the troops and to urge rival Iraqi politicians to end months of delays and select new leaders for their wobbly democracy. Nevertheless, Biden predicted a peaceful transition of power even as suicide bombers struck government centers in two major cities, Mosul and Ramadi. Four people were killed and 25 injured in the two blasts that occurred hundreds of miles apart.Vice President Joe Biden paid a surprise visit to Iraq on the fourth of July to salute... more
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The New York Times reports that some 150 politicians, civil servants, tribal chiefs, police officers, Sunni clerics and members of Awakening Councils have been assassinated throughout Iraq since the election — bloodshed apparently aimed at heightening turmoil in the power vacuum created by more than four months without a national government.The New York Times reports that some 150 politicians, civil servants, tribal chiefs,... more
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Gunmen killed two candidates from the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq's March parliamentary election, slayings that the alliance says are part of a politically motivated campaign of assassinations.Gunmen killed two candidates from the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats... more
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Recent elections in Iraq saw strong returns for ex-prime minister Ayad Allawi whose Iraqi National Accord party gained 91 seats, two seats better than current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
Though who ultimately won Iraq’s elections still remains in dispute, Allawi’s return to prominence has dredged up controversial questions about his past, including his history with the US Central Intelligence Agency and stories suggesting Allawi personally executed people at whim.Recent elections in Iraq saw strong returns for ex-prime minister Ayad Allawi whose... more
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At least four Sunni Muslim candidates who appear to have won parliamentary seats on the winning ticket of secular leader Ayad Allawi have become targets of investigation by security forces reporting to the narrowly defeated Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.At least four Sunni Muslim candidates who appear to have won parliamentary seats on... more
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