Tag: Nouri al Maliki

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

Iraq’s al-Maliki: Stern, unwavering, heavy-handed

Adam Schreck · August 15, 2014 8:07 pm

Iraq: Maliki tells army to keep out of politics

Washington Examiner · August 12, 2014 1:34 pm

National Security

Obama backs new Iraqi leadership

Susan Crabtree · August 11, 2014 11:06 pm

President Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, about ongoing situation in Iraq before his departure on Marine One for a vacation in Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama: U.S. airstrikes in Iraq will continue for ‘some time’

Susan Crabtree · August 9, 2014 4:49 pm

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, attends the first session of parliament in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Beltway Confidential

A blazing indictment of Obama administration decisions on Iraq

Michael Barone · July 6, 2014 2:31 pm

House Speaker John Boehner slammed President Obama Thursday morning for failing to respond to an offensive by Islamist militants in Iraq. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

GOP presses Obama: Urgent action needed in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 13, 2014 6:30 pm

A group supporting the al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows a militant standing in front of a burning Iraqi Army Humvee in Tikrit, Iraq. The al-Qaida-inspired group that led the charge in capturing two key Sunni-dominated cities in Iraq this week has vowed to march on to Baghdad, raising fears about the Shiite-led governmentâs ability to slow the assault following lightening gains. Fighters from ISIL on Wednesday took Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts and yielded ground once controlled by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Iraqi0Revolution via AP video)

National Security

Obama says U.S. may help try to stabilize Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 13, 2014 5:07 pm

Electoral workers carry ballot boxes at a counting center in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Iraq voted Wednesday in its first nationwide election since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki confident of victory and even offering an olive branch to his critics by inviting them to join him in a governing coalition. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

Iraq: Al-Maliki calls vote ‘slap’ to terrorism

Qassim AbdulZahra · May 1, 2014 5:41 pm