Topic: Ayad Allawi

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi urged restraint in response to ISIS after reports said the current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sought U.S. help.

A number of Iraqi politicians who object to recent policy decisions by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are calling on him to resign.

The United States needs to support Iraqi and Iranian allies it is leaving behind as U.S. forces leave Iraq.

The United States needs to take steps to stop a feared massacre of an Iranian dissident group at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

After nine months of stalemate, the Iraqi Parliament approved a unity government that leaves Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister.

Opposition leader Ayad Allawi indicated Sunday he will join a unity government his archrival, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, plans to present to Parliament.

Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has lost his fight to lead Iraq, but remains a key figure in the fragile situation there, local and foreign observers say.

The Iraqi Supreme Court Sunday ordered the deadlocked parliament to get to work, calling the lawmakers' absence unconstitutional.

The slight win by the coalition of former prime minister Ayad Allawi means Iraq's political system could remain uncertain for months, officials said.

The disqualification of candidates in Iraq's recent election threatens to disrupt the formation of a new government, a former Iraqi prime minister said.