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In Secret Talks, Iran Forged Deal for Pro-Tehran Iraq

Matt Cantor — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:14:16 CDT

Iran was behind the recently struck deal between Nouri al-Maliki and Muqtada al-Sadr, and the result could be an Iraqi government friendly to Tehran and distanced from the West, the Guardian reports. According to the paper's sources, Syria, Hezbollah, and top Shia religious leaders were involved with a secret campaign...

Biden Struggles to Break Iraqi Deadlock

Rob Quinn — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:22:06 CDT

Joe Biden spent his surprise visit to Iraq trying to prod Iraqi politicians into forming a new government, 4 months after elections finished in a stalemate. The vice president, keen to avoid a power vacuum as US combat troops exit, also stressed that the US has no intention of abandoning...

Election Winner Allawi: Time for Iraq to Look After Itself

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:11:51 CDT

Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi reached out to his rivals to form a governing coalition today, staking his claim as the top vote-getter in Iraq's elections and saying he hoped to build strong relations with neighboring countries. Allawi's secular Iraqiya bloc edged out chief rival Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki by...

Iraqi PM Loses Election; Supporters Threaten Violence

Nick McMaster — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:00:50 CDT

Iraq's fragile democracy is in danger after vote counts released today showed Nouri al-Maliki narrowly lost the election. The current PM's party lost to Ayad Allawi's Iraqiya, 91 to 89. Though the margin was slim, electoral observers and diplomats say the result was fair and largely free of fraud. Nonetheless,...

Maliki Demands Recount as Party Lead Slips

Rob Quinn — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:27:00 CDT

Iraq's prime minister accused the country's election commission of manipulating national vote results and ordered a recount as a rival coalition edged into the lead over his bloc with 79% of of the tally in. Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition is still ahead in the province-by-province count, but challenger...

Former Iraqi PM: Bush an 'Utter Failure'

Wesley Oliver — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:20:07 CST

The Iraqi prime minister installed by Washington after the fall of Saddam Hussein has blasted President Bush’s policies as an “utter failure,” Reuters reports. In an interview with an Arab newspaper, Iyad Allawi said Bush’s “insistence on names like ‘democracy’ and ‘open elections,’ without giving attention to political stability,...

Maliki Calls Summit to Heal Iraqi Cabinet

Wesley Oliver — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:27:51 CDT

Iraq’s PM says he will try to salvage his disintegrating government by holding an emergency summit of cabinet members over the next couple of days. The BBC reports that Nouri al-Maliki is even warning Sunnis that he could refill his government with “alternative” ministers if they refuse to join. Sunnis...