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Maliki, who earlier in the day met with the Serbian president, spoke at the Serbian National Assembly after a meeting with its president, Maja Gojkovic.

"Knowing historical and geographic facts well, we cannot recognize self-proclaimed states because that poses a threat to other regions of the world," El Maliki told reporters.

"Ten years ago, the Americans helped Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province west of Baghdad form the 'Awakening' movement to defeat a previous incarnation of violent fundamentalist Islam - al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu worked through the night to avert a coup attempt in Iraq when special forces loyal to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and armored vehicles were deployed across strategic locations in Baghdad late Aug. 10.

Iraq's caretaker premier Nuri al-Maliki said Wednesday it will take a court ruling for him to leave power, defying the president's decision to task a rival with forming a government.
      
"I confirm that the government will continue and there will not be a replacement for it without a decision from the federal court," Maliki said in his televised weekly address.
      

Iraq moved closer to turning the page on Nuri al-Maliki's reign when an alternative prime minister was named Monday to steer the country out of a raging war and save it from breakup.
      
"The country is in your hands," President Fuad Masum told Haidar al-Abadi after accepting his nomination by parliament's Shiite bloc, in a move immediately welcomed by the United States.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s insistence on not leaving office has produced the current political crisis in the country, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, adding that there was a recent coup attempt when forces reportedly surrounded President Fuad Masum’s compound.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic sent a letter of support to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday against the unlawful and aggressive operations carried out by the extremist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, paid a one-day visit to Ankara on June 26, upon the invitation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to discuss in detail the developments in the whole of Iraq.
  

Firm action should be taken against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has taken 80 Turkish citizens hostage as it spreads across northern Iraq, Iraq’s fugitive Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi has told daily Hürriyet.

“Why are they constantly attacking us in the world, why are we always the target?” main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu asked this question to Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who paid him a visit for a briefing. Davutoğlu responded he would get back to this question, but was never able to.