Iyad Allawi’s bid to become Iraq’s Prime Minister again has received an endorsement from an unexpected source: the Ba’ath Party. A spokesman for the exiled leadership of Saddam Hussein’s old party ...

BAGHDAD - Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, whose Iraqiya alliance edged out Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's party in national elections last month, on Thursday warned of potential chaos and ...

Iyad Allawi made his fateful decision last November when top Shi’ite leaders, including senior cleric Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, made a rare trip into the Green Zone to invite the interim Prime Minister to ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's election winner Iyad Allawi, the leader of a successful cross-sectarian coalition that wooed Shi'ites and Sunnis, also wants to court Arab neighbors and reach out to Iran.

Timeline:1960s - Joins the Baath Party while in medical school in Baghdad. 1970s - In charge of Baath organizations in Europe when he breaks from Saddam Hussein's regime and goes into exile in London.

On August 16, as the leading members of Iraq’s government gathered for their weekly cabinet meeting in a high-ceilinged hall of the Republican Palace in Baghdad, one of them made an unusual request.