- Fuad Masum is the new President of Iraq a Kurdish politician in a step towards forming a new government that visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said must be inclusive for the country to survive
- The attacks led by the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group on north and west of Baghdad; the group has brought Iraq to the brink of breakup and the government struggling to assert any authority beyond its Shia power base
- The President has served as a Prime Minister in the past and has won and the Kurdish parties assured to support him
- Iraq’s Kurds get the President post unofficially over power sharing deal and the move could pave way for a deal on the much more powerful post of Prime Minister
- A pre dawn assault was launched by the insurgents on a convoy transferring inmates convicted of terrorism charges in Taji, only 25 km. north of Baghdad
- The medical sources and Police present there told that around 60 people died with a suicide car bomb before the gunfire
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/iraq-a-new-kurdish-president-elected/article6247106.ece