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Iraq's parliament wrangled for weeks over crucial laws that must be in place for the election to proceed on time. But now the country's vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, has vetoed part of the law that decides how many refugees who have fled Iraq are...
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For a city under constant attack at the hands of a violent Sunni Arab insurgency, northern Iraq's Mosul looks in better shape than it has for many years. Streets littered with bombed out rubble have been cleared and collapsed buildings resurrected, trash...
Tags: Sunni Arab, Mosul, Iraq
The attack targeted the Islamic party, a Sunni group led by Iraqi Vice-President Tareq Hashemi...There has been a marked drop in violence in Iraq, although attacks increased in June in the run-up to an American pull-back from urban areas.
Tags: Iraqi Islamic Party, Fallujah, Sunni Arab
In a global electronic world Iranian resistance and NGO networks are active, financed and involved...What sort of economic or even criminal interests got involved, and why? These are reasonable questions and not a criticism of those struggling for more...
Tags: Iran, Sunni Arab
The Iraqi authorities on Monday released a video showing the interrogation of a man they say is Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, chief of the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda, whose identity is subject to dispute. The spokesman for Baghdad's security operations, Major General...
Tags: Iraqi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Detained Al-Qaeda, Abu Omer al-Baghdadi, Baghdad Operations Command, Qassim Atta, al-Qaeda, al qaeda, Sunni Arab
Iraq’s election commission is fighting back against claims that it failed to take account of grave violations in tightly contested provincial polls. It last week released final results from the January 31 election, confirming Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s...
Tags: Sunni Arab, Iraq
The government of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is seeking the arrest of a Sunni politician accused of masterminding a string of attacks including a suicide bombing inside the Iraqi parliament. Officials have asked parliament to lift the immunity...
Tags: Iraqi National Dialogue Front, sunni lawmaker, Mohammed al-Daini, arab lawmaker, sunni arab
The Iraqi parliament plunged into a fresh crisis Saturday, just a day before it was scheduled to reconvene, when members of the main Sunni Arab coalition fell into infighting over choosing a parliament speaker. The fighting centers on replacing Mahmoud...
Tags: Aswat al-Iraq news agency, IAF, parliamentary bloc, Sunni Arab, parliament speaker, sunni parliamentary, told aswat, sectarian quota
Improved security, a grudging belief in the credibility of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and a desire to counter growing Iranian influence has led Iraq's Sunni Arab neighbours in recent weeks to increase their diplomatic and economic support for the Shia-dominated...
Tags: iraq, iran, Gulf States Woo Iraq, Sunni Arab, Baghdad
The Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) spokesman, Salim al-Jubouri, said on Tuesday that the group had given a list of new candidates for five of the six ministerial posts which it previously held in Maliki's cabinet. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said...
Tags: Iraqi Accordance Front, Aswat al-Iraq, sunni bloc, Nouri al-Maliki, led government, Mr. Maliki, Nouri al-Maliki, Baghdad, prime minister, Sunni Arab