Even with an agreement, the election is now unlikely to occur by a constitutional deadline in January; it could slip into February, or beyond. Prime M...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament failed Monday to produce an election law that pleased minority Sunni Arabs, prompting U.S. Secretary of State Hillar...
Reuters | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi parliament on Sunday failed to resolve an impasse threatening to delay the country's election in January, which could af...
AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's path toward political stability after years of war threatened to veer off course Wednesday when a vice president vetoed part of...
AP | RYAN LUCAS | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Kurds threatened Tuesday to boycott national elections, days after the country's Sunni vice president threatened to veto the ne...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go for...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — National parliamentary elections will be held Jan. 30, Iraqi officials announced Monday, sliding the date into next year in a move tha...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A prominent anti-American Shiite cleric said Friday he hopes recent provincial elections will help unite Iraqis to push out the United...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 03.09.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — The U.N. secretary-general said Friday that provincial elections were an important step toward full democracy but told Iraqis they sti...
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.08.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's allies swept to victory over Shiite religious parties during last weekend's provincial elections in I...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A senior Sunni tribal leader claimed Wednesday to have hundreds of documents proving fraud in weekend elections in Anbar province, esc...
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
In comparison to the brave women running for office in Iraq, why are American women so accepting of the political status quo. Why aren't we running for office more often? What do we risk?
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 03.04.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — The biggest Shiite party in Iraq once appeared to hold all the political sway: control of the heartland, the backing of influential cl...
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 03.03.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Passing through razor-wire cordons and police checkpoints, Iraqi voters Saturday took another step in the nation's quest for stability...
Huffington Post, AP | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
Iraq is preparing for Saturday's provincial elections, the first elections in the country since 2005 and widely viewed as a test of the country's stab...
Nytimes.com | SAM DAGHER | Posted 02.28.2009 | World
BAGHDAD -- Amal Kibash, a candidate for the Baghdad provincial council, is running a bold and even feverish campaign by most standards. With elections...
Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 02.28.2009 | World
Iraqi voters go to the polls this Saturday for the first time since 2005 as they cast their ballots in provincial elections. Early voting began Wednes...
The National Newspaper | Posted 02.22.2009 | World
BAGHDAD // It was the country's first ballot of 2009 -- a year that could see 10 different elections in Iraq -- and according to some voters, it was m...
AFP | Posted 02.14.2009 | World
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Iran is likely to use this year's elections in Iraq to try and extend its influence over the country even as it trains, funds and ...
Foreign Policy | Tom Ricks | Posted 02.05.2009 | World
News flash for the president-elect: All our troops are combat troops. It isn't like some American soldiers stroll around Iraq unarmed. Nor do the insu...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's presidential council on Friday ratified a law that paves the way for the first provincial elections in four years, officials sa...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — Under intense U.S. pressure, Iraq's parliament approved a law Wednesday paving the way for the first provincial elections in four year...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying election workers in southern Iraq on Monday, killing two of them including an official known for...
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.07.2008 | Media
Remarkable, isn't it, how this cover -- illustrating Sunday's NYT Mag lead story on Iraq -- manages to reduce what is otherwise Russian Roulette with a Rubik's Cube to a one-liner?
McClatchy Newspapers | Leila Fadel and Sahar Issa | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Despite intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi legislators Sunday failed to reach an agreement to solve an increasingly bitter dispute over the oil-rich norther...
NYT | STEVEN LEE MYERS | Posted 11.26.2009 | World