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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...