10/07/2013
Iraq?s Shiite prime minister seeks alliances with Sunnis
pBAGHDAD ? As Iran exerts its considerable a data-xslt="_http" href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-11/world/39900301_1_regime-iran-s-qusair"influence in Syria /aand around the region, it is meeting resistance from an unlikely source: Iraq?s polarized and faltering democracy./ppIraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who once sought refuge in Iran as an exile, has officially maintained his neutrality while his eastern neighbor has thrown its full support behind the Syrian regime. Out of political necessity, he also recently has made significant efforts to build alliances with moderate Iraqi Sunni groups, offering a hint of cross-sectarian cooperation in a region increasingly defined by religious schism. /pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraqs-shiite-prime-minister-seeks-alliances-with-sunnis/2013/07/09/a9598a4a-d753-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2e761a54/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Firaqs-shiite-prime-minister-seeks-alliances-with-sunnis%2F2013%2F07%2F09%2Fa9598a4a-d753-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Iraq%E2%80%99s+Shiite+prime+minister+seeks+alliances+with+Sunnis" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Firaqs-shiite-prime-minister-seeks-alliances-with-sunnis%2F2013%2F07%2F09%2Fa9598a4a-d753-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Iraq%E2%80%99s+Shiite+prime+minister+seeks+alliances+with+Sunnis" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Firaqs-shiite-prime-minister-seeks-alliances-with-sunnis%2F2013%2F07%2F09%2Fa9598a4a-d753-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Iraq%E2%80%99s+Shiite+prime+minister+seeks+alliances+with+Sunnis" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Firaqs-shiite-prime-minister-seeks-alliances-with-sunnis%2F2013%2F07%2F09%2Fa9598a4a-d753-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Iraq%E2%80%99s+Shiite+prime+minister+seeks+alliances+with+Sunnis" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Firaqs-shiite-prime-minister-seeks-alliances-with-sunnis%2F2013%2F07%2F09%2Fa9598a4a-d753-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Iraq%E2%80%99s+Shiite+prime+minister+seeks+alliances+with+Sunnis" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165668496599/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e761a54/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165668496599/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e761a54/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165668496599/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e761a54/a2t.img" border="0"/
