Fledgling democracy witnesses serious violence daily but new protests rock government in new Iraq elections signal

Sunni protests may lead to new elections

Elections seen as only answer in crisis-hit Iraq

AFP

Massive rallies, a powerful cleric predicting an “Iraq spring” and Arabs and Kurds at loggerheads: Iraq is mired in a cycle of interlocking crises with elections increasingly seen as the only solution. Almost since the moment the last US troops withdrew in December 2011, the country has been locked.