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Recently, concerns have arisen both inside and outside of Iraq about the intentions of current prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. Over the past months, he has exerted great control over the government and the state in order to promote a strong central government and prevent the dissolution of Iraq. The intensely nationalist leader has made some [...]
Finally, after a year of negotiations, a pact has been reached regarding a timetable for American troop presence in Iraq. The agreement was agreed upon Sunday by President al-Maliki and his cabinet. Now the deal must make it through Iraqi parliament this week to be considered binding. Still, this is a major benchmark in the [...]
In a bit more of an opinion piece, a writer for The Economist examines the withdrawal of American troops and what it might mean. It is interesting to note that Obama’s plan for a recall isn’t until May of 2010, a lengthy period of time for a man who originally ran on the platform of [...]
Although many citizens and policymakers in Iraq were displeased that the most recently passed election law failed to address critical issues like the city of Kirkuk, a whole new wave of opposition to the law has risen from people who are outraged and opposed to it entirely.
When the law was passed, legislators struck from it [...]
Although Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently insisted that his country is in the thick of intensive discussions regarding US troop withdrawal from Iraq, nothing concrete has come to fruition yet. He has made it well known that his government has most recently proposed a deal whereby all US troops would be out of the [...]
Yesterday in northern Iraq, four Iraqi journalists were abducted and killed in the middle of videotaping a television program about the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was outraged at the violence in the city of Mosul, and has given strict orders to Iraqi security forces to “find the perpetrators” and [...]
British news source The Guardian released a piece yesterday on the man at the forefront of Iraqi politics, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He has begun to assert himself more in the political arena since the beginning of the US military surge in Iraq, and questions are arising as to whether Washington will soon step in [...]