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Mar. 11th (BBC News) - Preliminary results from Iraq elections show the grouping of PM Nouri Maliki is leading in two southern provinces, the electoral body says.

Mar. 8th (BBC News) - The voter turnout in Iraq elections was 62%, officials said, despite attacks that killed 38 people.

Mar. 07 (BBC News) - Iraq's second parliamentary election since the 2003 invasion has been hit by multiple attacks, with at least 35 people being killed.

Mar. 4 (BBC News) - At least 14 people have been killed in Baghdad on the first day of voting in Iraq's parliamentary elections.

Mar. 3rd (Al Jazeera) - At least 29 people have been killed and 42 more wounded in three powerful co-ordinated suicide attacks in the central Iraqi city of Baquba.

As the global media narrows its collective focus onto NATO’s struggle to re-take Afghanistan, sectarian tensions are threatening to rip apart the political fabric of Iraq.

Feb. 28 (Press TV) - Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has issued a Fatwa (religious ruling), declaring vote-buying as Haraam (forbidden) ahead of the country's parliament elections.

Feb. 4 (BBC News) - Preparations for elections in Iraq next month have been thrown into disarray by a row over whether to uphold a ban on hundreds of candidates.

Feb. 1 (LA Times) - The attack, which echoes one a year earlier, occurred as victims were about to begin their walk to the shrine city of Karbala. Iraqis fear even worse as March elections draw near.

January 1, 2010 (Al Jazeera) - The Iraqi government will push to appeal a US court ruling dismissing charges of murder against five security guards of the private Blackwater firm, an official has told Al Jazeera.