Iraqi parliament
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Sadrist Movement issues 72-hour deadline on new proposal
A prominent figure in the Sadrist Movement, announced on Saturday, August 27, a 72-hour deadline over a new proposal from the movement on early elections.
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Muqtada al-Sadr uses street pressure to set political conditions for his rivals / Shelly Kittleson
Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vowed that new elections would be held as his followers flocked to a mass prayer in the occupied parts of Baghdad’s Green Zone after 10 months of political deadlock.
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Iraqi Kurds and Sunnis fear intra-Shiite conflict could spiral to other communities / Mustafa Saadoun
Sunnis and Kurds in Iraq are wary that if unresolved, the fighting among Shiite factions could spill over into their regions.
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Muqtada Sadr insists no dissolving parliament
The leader of the Sadrist Movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said on Saturday, August 6, his demands to dissolve the Iraqi parliament and for early elections has become the public demand with broad support.
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Iraqi Kurds decry 'unjust pressure' from Baghdad in oil row
Iraq's supreme court in February ordered Kurdistan to deliver the oil produced in its territories to the federal government in Baghdad. It also gave the latter the right to review all oil contracts, or even cancel them.
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Iraqi parliament passes bill banning ties with Israel
The Iraqi parliament passed a bill outlawing the normalization of relations with Israel on Thursday, May 26, according to state media.
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Dissolving parliament is only way out of Iraqi political stalemate: PUK
A member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said the only way out of the current political stalemate in Iraq is to dissolve the parliament.
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Iraqi Sunni coalition meets Masoud Barzani
A delegation from the Sunni Sovereignty (al-Siyada) Coalition which included the bloc’s leader, Khamis al-Khanjar, and the Speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Mohammed al-Halbousi, met the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Masoud Barzani, on Tuesday, April 26.