Iraq violence rages on. What's happened to its leadership?

Power struggle in Iraqi government threatens to hamper efforts to stem advances by the militants

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
(Image credit: ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images)

As Islamic State militants continue their brutal campaign in Iraq, the country's leaders are absorbed in a political power struggle.

A deadlock over the new government has plunged Iraq into a political crisis at a time when violent extremists are seizing large swaths of land, persecuting minorities, forcing thousands to flee their homes and murdering those who get in their way.

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