Row over Parliament speaker continues; Mutlaq threatens to expel Daini; Secret informant service dissolved

Threats of disobedience in Maysan; A new political map for Iraq?; Fadhila Party claims alliance with Dawa, Sadrists

The provincial elections were a defeat for Iran; new readings of the Iraqi election results; integrity of elections questioned.

The political map in Iraq; Sadrists ask to keep results in place; demands to honor council quotas for women

The elections showed the formation of new powers; gains and losses in the provincial councils; no supplementary elections, officials say

The Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council wants to cancel the elections; parliamentarians may break the divisions; candidates of the Iraqi elections.

The SOFA is a marriage of convenience; why is there a SOFA between occupied Baghdad and Washington?; has the political violence in Iraq ended?

The visit by the "liberator" U.S President George W. Bush six years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was supposed to be a public event marked by celebrations, the weekly al-Basaer said Tuesday.

A renewed focus is needed on a unified vision of Iraq independent of Iranian influence or forces allied with the American occupation.