Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Tortuous path ahead to form Iraq government (Reuters)
• Iraq's Military Flexes to Deter Any Sunni Backlash (Time.com)
• New Iraq Government Set, as al-Sadr Okays al-Maliki as PM (Time.com)
• As Iraq stalemate sets record, Pentagon concern for US troops grows (The Christian Science Monitor)

Tortuous path ahead to form Iraq government (Reuters) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 08:39 AM PDT Reuters - Attempts by Nuri al-Maliki to form a new government could be weeks, if not months, away from fruition because the prime minister is struggling to secure support from Kurdish and Sunni factions.

Iraq's Military Flexes to Deter Any Sunni Backlash (Time.com) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 02:05 AM PDT Time.com - As Sunnis bristle at being shut out of power by a new intra-Shi'ite political pact, the army beefs up security in former hotbeds of insurgency. But the resultant friction could trigger the backlash it aims to prevent

New Iraq Government Set, as al-Sadr Okays al-Maliki as PM (Time.com) Posted: 02 Oct 2010 01:25 AM PDT Time.com - After the longest postelection hiatus in world parliamentary history, Iraq looks set to finally have a new government. And it won't look much different from the current one

As Iraq stalemate sets record, Pentagon concern for US troops grows (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq officially broke the dubious world record Friday for going the longest stretch of time without a new government. As the US military warily eyed the approach of this particular milestone in the wake of the country’s parliamentary elections in March, top US commanders issued increasingly dire warnings this week about what the impasse portends for US troops on the ground.

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