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This stems to a large degree on growing suspicions Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite with old ties to Iran, is moving to crush his political and sectarian opponents and establish a Shiite dictatorship in Iraq. If the demands for greater ...  

Baghdad (AFP) May 24, 2012 A mortar attack in Baghdad killed one person and wounded six others Thursday, in the second attack in Iraq's capital during key talks on Iran's nuclear programme, security and medical officials said. An interior ministry official said a mortar round struck a street in the Bataween area of central Baghdad, across the Tigris River from the heavily-fortified Green Zone where the talks between I  

Whenever there's a chance that freedom might break out in Iraq, that the people might be heard, Nouri's brown shirts take to downtown Baghdad.  Nouri's little cult followed orders and hit the streets of downtown Baghdad this morning.  Alsumaria reports that the thug's thugs were out in full force, carrying signs supproting Nouri and insisting that anyone not supproting Thug Nouri was influenced  

Efforts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad to halt Iran's nuclear programme have stalled after Tehran rejected an offer from the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China - which was branded 'a joke' by analysts. Representatives of the world powers hold talks with Iranian nuclear negotiators in Baghdad, Iraq (Picture: EPA) The Western powers - the United Nations Security Council plus Germany - wanted Iran to stop production of 20 per...  

Baghdad attacks Turkey oil pipeline planBy Daniel Dombey in IstanbulBaghdad has hit back at plans for a big oil pipeline with Turkey, in the latest sign of tension between the neighbours and deepening strains in Iraq itself.The move comes after demonstrators burned Turkish flags outside the consulate in the southern city of Basra over the weekend, and after Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister, described Turkey as a hostile state.More:Baghdad...  

Negotiators from the US and five other world powers are holding talks with Iranian officials in Baghdad, Iraq, over Tehran's nuclear programme. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton walks with Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari in Baghdad (Picture: AFP/Getty) The second round of talks - underway amid tight security in the Iraqi capital's Green Zone - comes amid a longstanding impasse between the west and Iran over the...  

And last month, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused his Iraqi counterpart, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, of stoking sectarian tensions among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and of monopolising power. Maliki fired back, saying such ...  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say three bombs have struck a bird market in eastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding dozens.Police officials say the Friday morning attack targeted a bird market crowded with shoppers in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. They say 34 people were wounded in the blasts. A hospital official confirmed the casualty tolls. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized...  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, concerned by his portrayal in U.S. media as an autocratic leader intent on consolidating power, has invited several influential Washington scholars to Baghdad to meet his team next week.  

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said.Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City was crowded with shoppers when the bombs exploded at around 7:00 a.m. At least 37 people were wounded in the blasts, officials said.A hospital official confirmed the casualty...  

Yesterday was May Day.  Ali Hussein (Al Mada) reports that Nouri al-Maliki responded to the various gatherings and celebrations by the Communist Party by insisting that the Party's actions did nothing to help workers and, basically, the Party should just be quiet and be content to see Nouri, on the official holiday, visit a car factory.  Dar Addustour reports hundreds gathered in Baghdad's  

Al-Hashemi long has been a leading critic of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, and was considered a confidant of American Vice President Joe Biden. Days after the U.S. military left Iraq in December, al-Maliki's government issued a warrant for al ...  

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say three bombs have struck a bird market in eastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding dozens. Police officials say the Friday morning attack targeted a bird market crowded with shoppers in the Shiite ...  

Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government last month issued an arrest warrant for the Sunni vice-president , the country's top Sunni politician. The Sunni official, Tariq al-Hashemi, is holed up in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region ...  

Hashimi, one of Iraq's highest-ranking minority Sunni politicians, fled Baghdad in December when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government sought his arrest. Hashimi's son-in-law, Ahmad Ahmad Kahtan, and more than 70 of his bodyguards have ...