Opposition within Shia coalition and US threats hinder Nouri al-Maliki’s path to becoming Iraq’s next prime minister.

Iraqi Shi’ite leaders arrived in Erbil for talks with Kurdish officials as political deadlock deepens over appointing a new ...

KDP lawmaker Majid Shenkali reveals political pressure behind delaying Iraq’s presidential vote and discloses plans to raise ...

The two dominant political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan have reached an agreement to support Fuad Hussein as a candidate for ...

Iraq’s dominant political bloc has nominated former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki as its candidate for prime minister ...

Concern over return of former Iraqi premier exacerbated after Trump threatens to stop helping country if he comes back ...

Iraq’s parliament postpones presidential vote as Kurdish rivals fail to agree on a candidate, delaying government formation ...

President Donald Trump threatened to end U.S. support for Iraq if Nouri Kamal al-Maliki returns to power, the latest ...

Maliki’s nomination sets stage for delicate talks on forming government amid US-Iran tensions and pressure over armed ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A parliamentary session scheduled for Tuesday to elect Iraq’s next president has been postponed ...

Nouri al-Maliki let ISIS take over a third of Iraq in 2014. He spent years in the political wilderness, but now he is angling ...

In late 2003, I was asked to take on the task of demobilizing Iraqi militias. This would later be named the “transition and ...