Iraqi Provincial Elections Bring Wave of Violence, Assassination - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Ali Abel Sadah

Ali Abel Sadah

Apr 17, 2013

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliya district in Baghdad April 15, 2013. Car bombs and attacks on cities across Iraq, including two blasts at a checkpoint at Baghdad international airport, killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 200 on Monday, police said. The wave of attacks in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Tuz Khurmato and other towns to the north to south, came days before Iraqis vote in provincial elections that will test political stability more than a year after U.S. troops lef — Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliya district in Baghdad, April 15, 2013. — REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen

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Head of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya political bloc Iyad Allawi speaks during a news conference for the seniors of Iraqiya bloc in Baghdad January 18, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2WGNS

Iraqiya List Frays As Constituents Splinter

Iraqi Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq (L) and Iraqiya Sunni speaker of parliament Osama al-Nujaifi hold a news conference for the seniors of Iraqiya bloc in Baghdad January 18, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2WGNT

Electoral race heats up among Iraq's Sunni factions

Harith al-Qarawee

Harith al-Qarawee

Iraqi election officials empty a ballot box before counting the votes in a constitutional referendum after the closing of a polling station in Basra, 420 km (261 miles) southeast of Baghdad April 20, 2013. Voter participation in Iraq's provincial election on Saturday was 50 percent of eligible voters, the country's electoral authorities said after poll stations closed. Election officials said including results from a special vote a week earlier for members of the armed forces, total participation would be m

Maliki Falls Short of Majority In Early Election Returns

Osama al-Nujaifi (C), speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, holds up his ink-stained finger as he casts his vote at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Baghdad April 30, 2014. Iraqis headed to the polls on Wednesday in their first national election since U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeking a third term amid rising violence. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) - RTR3N8ZF

Uncertain prospects for Iraqi 'Sunni Alliance'

Mushreq Abbas