SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA

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To stem extremists, Iraq to reduce Baghdad’s power

SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA · October 10, 2014 7:26 am

In this Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 handout photo from the Iraqi government, Iraq's prime minister for the past eight years, Nouri al-Maliki, speaks at a podium surrounded by Iraqi lawmakers, during an address to the nation, announcing that he is stepping down in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Maliki relinquished his post Thursday to fellow Dawa Party member Haider al-Abadi, seen at left, ending a political deadlock that has plunged the country into uncertainty as it fights a Sunni militant insurgency.(AP Photo/Iraqi Government))

Iraqis welcome change of PM but challenges loom

SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA · August 15, 2014 11:24 pm

Iraqi military helicopter crashes delivering aid

SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA · August 12, 2014 4:32 pm

Iraqis chant pro-government slogans and display placards bearing a picture of embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Al-Maliki is taking his struggle to keep his job to the courts after announcing he will file a legal complaint on Monday against the country's newly elected president. President Barack Obama warned Americans on Saturday that the new campaign to bring security in Iraq requires military and political changes and "is going to be a long-term project." (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

Iraq president names deputy speaker new PM

SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA · August 11, 2014 5:37 pm

Sailors carry a missile at sunset on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 in the Persian Gulf. Aircrafts aboard the George H.W. Bush are flying missions over Iraq after U.S. President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes against Islamic militants and food drops for Iraqis trapped by the fighters. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Iraqi PM to file complaint against new president

SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA · August 11, 2014 2:35 am

A displaced Iraqi Christian woman holds a picture of her four-year-old relative, David, who was killed by militants, at St. Joseph Church in Irbil, northern Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Late Wednesday, militants overran a cluster of predominantly Christian villages alongside the country's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, sending tens of thousands of civilians and Kurdish fighters fleeing from the area, several priests in northern Iraq said Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

US airdrops supplies to thousands besieged in Iraq

SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA · August 8, 2014 3:28 am

Iraqi Shiite fighters with the "Peace Brigades" search Shiite worshipers before open-air Friday prayers in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraqi cleric urges leaders not to ‘cling’ to power

SAMEER N. YACOUBVIVIAN SALAMA · July 25, 2014 3:10 pm

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