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Iraq’s Allawi: power-sharing deal “is dead” (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, former Prime Minister and the Head of Current National Reform, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad November 13, 2010. Iraq's Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc told parliament on Sunday it would remain part of a Shi'ite-led government, despite a walkout and angry comments from its leader that threatened to damage the long-sought accord.  REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS)Reuters - The head of Iraq’s main Sunni-backed political group has pronounced a new power-sharing deal “dead” and predicted more violence, just days after the accord aiming to end political…

Iraq’s new government to include Sunni-backed bloc (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a news conference after meeting Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Iraq’s fractious politicians have agreed to return Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister, ending an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian war, but leaving some Sunnis…

Iraq’s new govt to include Sunni-backed bloc (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a news conference after meeting Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Iraq’s fractious politicians have agreed to return Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister, ending an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian war, but leaving some Sunnis…

Iraq’s Christians Vow to Survive — With Muslim Help (Time.com)

November 10th, 2010

Time.com - After the horrific church invasion on Halloween, Baghdad’s Christians suffer another day of assaults. But they have also won the sympathy of their Muslim countrymen

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Iraq’s Christians terrorized by wave of bombings (AP)

November 10th, 2010

Iraqi Christian Siba Nadhir, who survived last week's church carnage in Baghdad, lies on her hospital bed surrounded by a nurse and mourning family members in black, in the Iraqi capital on November 7, one day before being transferred along with 40 people wounded in the deadly October 31 Al-Qaeda hostage assault on the Sayedat al-Nejat Catholic catherdral to France for further hospital treatment.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AP - Suspected Sunni militants took aim again at Baghdad’s dwindling Christian community, setting off a dozen roadside bombs Wednesday and sending terrified families into hiding behind a church where…

Baghdad Carnage: Could It End Iraq’s Political Impasse? (Time.com)

November 4th, 2010

Time.com - Seven months have passed since Iraq elected a new parliament but no new government has been formed. Will two horrific days scare the powerbrokers into action?

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Iraq’s Shi’ite politicians turn down Saudi offer (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - Iraq’s Shi’ite alliance turned down a Saudi Arabian offer on Saturday to host all-party talks to resolve months of political stalemate because it said it was confident a…

Iraq’s Tareq Aziz sentenced to death, Vatican appeals (Reuters)

October 27th, 2010

Reuters - Iraq’s high tribunal Tuesday passed a death sentence on Tareq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein’s government, over the persecution of Islamic parties, the court said.

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Iraq’s Allawi charges Iran destabilizing Mideast (AP)

October 17th, 2010

King Abdullah II of Jordan, right, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki,  in Amman, Jordan, Sunday Oct. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/ KHALIL MAZRAAWI, POOL)AP - The leader of the Iraqi bloc that came first in elections accused Iran on Sunday of trying to destabilize Iraq and manipulate the political process as he jeered…

In Iraq’s Old Battlefields: Two Kinds of Americans (Time.com)

October 8th, 2010

Time.com - The people of Anbar province may not have liked Americans but they learned to hate al-Qaeda more. But they also learned to prefer one kind of U.S. soldier…