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  Power struggle intensifies within Iraqi govt, president names deputy speaker new PM

  World | Aug 12, 2014, 07:11 AM IST

  Baghdad: Iraq's new president on Monday snubbed the powerful incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and nominated the deputy parliament speaker to form the new government, raising fears of more infighting in the government as country

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  Militants claim they have executed 1,700 Iraqi soldiers

  World | Jun 16, 2014, 09:11 AM IST

  Baghdad: Photos were posted on a Twitter account claiming to show Sunni militants carrying out a mass execution of captured Iraqi Shiite soldiers, raising the prospect of a broader sectarian war in Iraq.The photographs, accompanied