Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gave up the fight Thursday to keep his post, clearing the way for a new leader that many hope can hold Iraq together as the country battles brutal extremist fighters ...

Iraq’s Nuri al-Maliki digs in as President nominates new Prime Minister ... Kirk Sowell, author of “Inside Iraqi Politics,” said the end of al-Maliki’s eight-year rule appears near.

After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of ...

A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Thursday at a restaurant in northern Iraq where Arab and Kurdish politicians were ...

Iraq Lays Cornerstone To Restore Al-Nuri Mosque, ... As NPR's Jane Arraf reported, the United Nations said 8,000 homes in the Old City were damaged or destroyed in fighting, ...

That project exists, but I am fighting it, and it is to be fought politically and militarily,” said Nuri al-Maliki about his longtime political rival, Moqtada al-Sadr, in a leaked recording.

Iraq's caretaker Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says it will take a federal court ruling for him to leave power. Iraq's President Fuad Masum on August 11 asked senior Shi'ite politician Haidar al ...

Baghdad, Iraq — The U.S. ambassador to Iraq met Sunday with former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi politician's office said, a day after pro-Iran militants struck U.S. forces in the ...