With parliamentary elections upcoming in Iraq, the banning of individuals with suspected links to the Ba’ath Party has raised fears among some members of the Sunni community that Shi’ite figures in the establishment are out to purge Sunnis from politics
On 16 July 2009, the prime minister of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, said in an interview that the KRG and the Iraqi federal government were closer
