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The article reports on the courage of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to run in the third term as prime minister of Baghdad, Iraq despite of the pressure from friendly foreign powers.

BAGHDAD -- Baghdadiya, a satellite channel that broadcasts out of Cairo, is best known outside Iraq for its reporter Muntader al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush at a news conference in 2008. Here, the channel has earned a reputation for its feisty news programming, including a morning program that provides an open forum for citizens to criticize the government, including Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors report that gunmen dressed as Iraqi police commandos in vehicles with Iraqi Interior Ministry markings kidnapped 55 people from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education in Baghdad, Iraq. Orders for the arrest of police commanders from the Karada area near the Ministry were given. The actions intensify pressures on Iraqi prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The government's swift response broke with a pattern of inaction in earlier mass kidnapping apparently linked to Shiite death squads.

The article focuses on the criticisms of the citizens of Karada district in Baghdad, Iraq on former Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and the Shiite-led government due to their failure to uphold impartial justice and public security in the district that led to attacks of the Islamic State.

BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein used to hold the Babylon Festival at the end of Iraq's sweltering summers on the site of the ancient ruins of Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, an hour's drive south of the capital. It was agitprop, an annual expression of megalomania and, until the last one in fall 2002, with war already in the air, a forum for railing against the United States. This year the Ministry of Culture decided to revive the festival over three days that ended on Monday. The organizers, supported by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, envisioned a celebration of a new democratic Iraq. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A series of bombings rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 100, and there were two separate attacks on American military convoys in Baghdad in which at least three people were killed. The violence was the worst to hit the Iraqi capital since American combat troops withdrew on June 30, providing another test of Iraq's ability to defend itself as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki left for talks with President Obama in Washington. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What's going right? And can it last? Violence in all of Iraq is the lowest since March 2004. The two largest cities, Baghdad and Basra, are calmer than they have been for years. The third largest, Mosul, is in the midst of a major security operation. On Thursday, Iraqi forces swept unopposed through the southern city of Amara, which has been controlled by Shiite militias. There is a sense that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's government has more political traction than any of its predecessors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Sunday, praised the Iraqi government's decision to take on Shiite militia members in Basra and in Baghdad and painted an upbeat picture of the Iraqi government's progress toward unifying the country. Ms. Rice, who visited the Iraqi capital on her way to a conference in Kuwait of Iraq's neighbors, said that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's government ''has made a choice to pursue militias and is willing to bear the consequences.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the meeting between Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and John P. Abizaid, American commander in the Middle East, held in Baghdad, Iraq. A statement from the office of the prime minister reports that al-Maliki and Abizaid discussed the influence of neighboring countries, including Syria and Iran, on the security of Iraq.

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's leaders reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday night to create a unity government embracing the country's major ethnic and religious factions, ending an eight-month political impasse and returning Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to power for a second term as prime minister. The impasse had stoked fears of a return to sectarian violence. Yet the composition of the new government remained murky, and seemed to hold out the potential for more of the infighting, instability and vulnerability to insurgents that have hampered the country's politics for years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]