BAGHDAD: As Iraq’s Shiite leaders jostle to secure a majority in the newly elected parliament, Sunni and Kurdish minorities have been caught up in a spate of warning grenade attacks, analysts say. In recent days, unknown attackers have hurled grenades at Kurdish and Sunni targets including political party offices and a lawmaker’s home groups that could help Shiite cleric
The Indian government will discuss with Iraq the possibility of settling trade payments in the rupee currency, the trade minister said, in a move that will also help.
Iraqi voters will head to polling stations on October 10 for early legislative elections, the fifth in the last 20 years; two years after mass protests brought down the government of Adil Abdel Mahdi but not before security forces and paramilitary groups killed more than 600 protesters. Back then, angry Iraqis were calling for an end to the sectarian system that resulted in