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Two car bombs kill 10, wound 38 in Iraq capital

Tweet . Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad's Sadr City on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 38 in the latest attack targeting Shiite...

Bloc's decision could strengthen Al Maliki

Fears of renewed conflict as Iraqiya leaders debate next course of action. Leaders of Iraq's Sunni-backed Iraqiya political bloc were to meet...

Iraq PM warns Sunnis could be shut from power

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority rejected a call for all-party talks on Wednesday, ignoring U.S. pressure for dialogue to resolve a sectarian crisis that has erupted since American forces left the country this week.With fears mounting that the ...

Iraq row deepens as PM calls for VP handover

Iraq's government marked its first anniversary Wednesday in turmoil as its premier urged Kurd officials to hand over the Sunni vice president on terror charges, in a row that has raised communal tension.Washington has urged calm, but Prime Minister Nuri ...

Analysis: Iraq crisis raises specter of sectarian strife

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When the last American soldiers left Iraq this week almost nine years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, U.S. officials were keen to portray it as a stable, democratic, if still troubled nation.Just a few days later, the ...

Iraqi Sunni leaders denounce PM Maliki

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi vice president accused of running death squads hit back at the prime minister on Tuesday in a sectarian feud that risks wrecking Iraq's fragile balance of power, just days after U.S. troops finally withdrew.In dismissing ...

VP arrest warrant plunges Iraq into crisis

Iraq issued an arrest warrant for its Sunni vice president on anti-terror charges Monday, deepening a crisis that one leader warned threatened the unity government, just a day after US troops left.Less than a year before the cabinet was formed, Iraq ...

Iraq issues arrest warrant for Sunni vice president

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Muslim Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi on suspected links to terrorism after the government said it obtained confessions from his bodyguards, an interior ministry spokesman said on Monday.The warrant risks fuelling sectarian ...

Sunni politicians in crosshairs as U.S. leaves Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister asked parliament to fire his Sunni deputy, and security sources said an arrest warrant was issued for the Sunni vice president, straining the fragile sectarian coalition on the day the last American troops left ...

Iraq's al-Maliki nominated for 2nd term as premier

0 . Iraq's president formally nominated Nouri al-Maliki for a second term as the country's prime minister on Thursday, giving him 30 days to cobble...