Iraqi panel orders vote recount in BaghdadA panel on Monday ordered a recount of ballots cast in Baghdad in Iraq's March 7 election, raising the chance of a reversal in the results that gave a cross-sectarian group backed by minority Sunnis a slim lead. Electoral commissioner Hamd More… |
Allawi takes most seats in Iraq voteSecularist challenger Iyad Allawi's coalition won the most seats in Iraq's election, according to preliminary results, but the tight race foreshadowed long, divisive talks to form a new government. The cross-sectarian Iraqiya bloc headed b More… |
Allawi edges ahead of PM in Iraq electionSecularist Iyad Allawi edged ahead of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday in a neck-and-neck election race that has laid bare the ethnic and sectarian divisions threatening Iraq's fragile stability. The new results from Iraq' More… |