Iraq Elections

Ain't No Party Like A New Iraqi Party

AP | MAZIN YAHYA | Posted 04.12.2012

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BAGHDAD — A group of political dissidents created a new Iraqi opposition party Saturday, vowing to act as a check on the government as the prime...

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Iraq Parliament Elects Jalal Talabani President, Despite Sunni Walk Out

AP | BARBARA SURK and REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's president gave Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the nod to form the next government Thursday after an eight-month deadlock...

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Iraq's Top Leaders: A Look At The Proposed Iraqi Government

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD (AP) - The long awaited announcement of Iraq's new government set for Monday will be delayed once again over disputes between the parties on h...

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Allawi: Still Our Safest Bet in Iraq

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

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As I have been arguing since the spring parliamentary elections, however, that contest's winner -- Iyad Allawi -- is the safest bet for US efforts to stabilize Iraq, a bet that has only become safer since the elections.

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A Bad Omen: The Iraqi Elections Impasse

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

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What Arab Gulf governments and citizens, Sunnis and Shi'ites alike, want is for an independent Iraq to emerge within the framework of its Arab sister states.

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Iraqi PM al-Maliki Says Rivals Who Won Election Can't Form Government

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Thursday his Sunni-backed rivals, who narrowly won the March election, were wasting their time trying to fo...

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Iraq's Election Blues

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Washington's surprise at the dubious post-election goings-on in Iraq is more noteworthy than what is causing it. Surprise itself is symptomatic of a misplaced optimism about the country's future.

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Supporting Allawi and Stability in Iraq

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

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While Americans want out of Iraq, the stability of the country is far from assured. The best course of action for the U.S. may be to support the outcome of the elections, and the winner, Iyad Allawi.

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The Iraqi Vote and its Implications

Amir Madani | Posted 05.25.2011

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The emerging trend of the Iraqi vote suggests moderation and compromise at all levels. But, in spite of some unexpected results, the big issue remains the ethnic and confessional partitioning of the country.

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Beirut in Baghdad

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Initial analysis of the Iraqi elections has been confined to the over-simplistic dichotomy of failure or success. However, there is another direction that Iraqi politics might take -- and for that we should be looking at Beirut in order to understand Baghdad.

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Baghdad Suicide Bombings Target Embassies, Kill Dozens

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Suicide attackers detonated three car bombs in quick succession near foreign embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing more than 40 peop...

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Iraq Election Fallout May Spark New Wave Of Violence

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — For the first time since the 2003 overthrow of their patron, Saddam Hussein, Iraq's Sunni Arabs are on the winning side. But the trium...

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Channeling Identity Politics in Iraq

Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011

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As events in Iraq show, leaders can both manipulate identities and be constrained by them.

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Iraq To Release Full Results From March 7 Vote

AP / Huffington Post | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Former U.S.-backed prime minister Ayad Allawi and his secular, anti-Iranian coalition narrowly won Iraq's parliamentary elections in f...

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Shadow Elite: March to War -- Is Ahmed Chalabi Under Iran's Thumb?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the case of Ahmed Chalabi, we saw an unelected power broker, not even a U.S. citizen, exerting enormous influence over our decision to go to war. That he's now said to be influenced by Iran comes as no surprise.

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Iraq Elections: Prime Minister 'Fighting For His Political Life'

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — The man who has led Iraq for the past four years is battling for his political survival just as U.S. troops are getting ready to pack ...

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Al-Maliki Assassination Rumors Quashed By Television Appearence

nytimes.com | TIM ARANGO | Posted 05.25.2011

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Flanked by his national security team, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki went on television Sunday night and praised Iraq's security forces for thei...

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Iraq Election: Al-Maliki Accuses Election Official Of Fraud

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BEN HUBBARD | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — A secular coalition challenging the Iraqi prime minister in the country's historic parliamentary elections has narrowly pulled ahead f...

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Iraq Election Results: Nouri Al-Maliki Battling Secular Challenger

AP | BEN HUBBARD AND QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — First results from Iraq's parliamentary election showed the prime minister and his secular rival locked in an extremely tight contest ...

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Iraq: The Elections Are Over, But Our Job Is Not Finished

Tucker Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

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The elections in Iraq this week were without question critical in efforts to maintain progress there. But elections alone will be enough to sustain the country's fledgling democracy.

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Iraq's Election Milestone

Jaffar al-Rikabi | Posted 05.25.2011

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As an Iraqi, I am proud of what my people achieved last weekend. Following disappointing elections in Afghanistan and controversial ones in Iran, we showed that Iraq's trajectory beams on a different path.

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Stewart On Violent Iraqi Elections: "You're Welcome" (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq held what was supposed to be its least corrupt election, yet polling stations were attacked with bombs and a few candidates were assassinated. Bu...

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Iraq Elections: Kurds Show Influence With Strong Turnout

guardian.co.uk | Martin Chulov | Posted 05.25.2011

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A strong turnout from Iraq's Kurds in national elections on Sunday has enhanced their status of kingmakers in forming the central government, with pre...

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Fauxmocracy

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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That we the people continue to buy into the modern myth of democracy simply allows oligarchy to persist unchallenged. As a populace, we are complicit in our silence.

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Iraq Election: Major Turnout At Polls Despite Insurgent Violence

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraqis defied insurgents who lobbed hand grenades at voters and bombed a polling station Sunday in an attempt to intimidate those taki...

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