Baghdad Trying to Stagger Out of Political Crisis

Although protesters demanding political reform have retreated from Baghdad’s streets, the underlying challenges to Iraq’s leadership and stability is not over. Negotiations between the country’s highly polarized political factions have failed to produce solutions, and its parliament is now so fractured that it cannot even gather a quorum. Talks of replacing the government with a transitional cabinet are in the air. “The country’s political situation is an absolute...

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