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Masum is new Iraq president
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament on Thursday elected veteran Kurdish politician Fuad Masum as federal president, a move that paves the way for the much-delayed formation of a new government. Parliament Speaker Salim Al-Juburi announced that Masum, who was born in ...
Iraq haggles over new president
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament, which had been due to elect the country's president on Wednesday, postponed the vote by a day, delaying the formation of a power-sharing government urgently needed to confront a Sunni Muslim uprising. The advance by Sunni militants ...
Five car bombs in Baghdad kill 26
BAGHDAD – Five car bombs killed 26 people in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said. The first explosion, a suicide car bombing, killed seven people at a police checkpoint in the Abu Dsheer district in the south of the capital, ...
UN: 5,500 Iraq civilians killed this year
BAGHDAD — The United Nations says violence in Iraq has killed more than 5,500 civilians over the first six months of 2014. That time period corresponds with an offensive by the Islamic State group and other militants that has overrun ...
Iraqi army retreats from Tikrit after assault stalls
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the militant-held city of Tikrit after their new offensive met heavy resistance, in a blow to the government effort to push back Sunni insurgents controlling large parts of the country. The failure highlights the ...
Iraq’s Sunni clerics suffer under insurgent rule
BAGHDAD – Early this year Sunni Arab worshippers in the Iraqi city of Falluja were surprised to see an armed man in sunglasses instead of the regular sheikh ascend the mosque pulpit. The visibly agitated cleric stood aside, silenced by a ...
Iraqi parliament breaks deadlock to elect speaker
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers broke their deadlock on Tuesday and elected a new speaker of parliament, taking the first formal step toward forming a new government that is widely seen as crucial to confronting the militants who have overrun much ...
Iraqi Kurds take over 2 northern oil fields
BAGHDAD — Kurdish security forces took over two major oil fields outside the disputed northern city of Kirkuk before dawn Friday and said they would use some of the production for domestic purposes, further widening a split with the central ...
Iraq must make progress on govt or face ‘chaos’: UN
BAGHDAD – Iraqi politicians must move forward on forming a government or risk the country descending into “chaos,” the UN’s envoy said on Saturday, a day before lawmakers were scheduled to meet. Nickolay Mladenov said Iraq’s bickering MPs would have only ...
Kurds to boycott Cabinet meetings
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Kurds on Thursday said their politicians will stay away from Cabinet meetings and called on Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to step down, blaming him for failing to stop the Sunni militant offensive that has swept across much ...
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