Maliki meets commanders as tensions rise in Baghdad

August 13, 2014 01:43

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with military officers today in the latest sign he won't hand power willingly to his designated successor, as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled Islamist militants.

Maliki ordered his commanders to keep out of the political crisis that has gripped Baghdad since President Fouad Masoum asked a rival Shiite politician to form a government, according to footage of the meeting shown on television. Earlier, militiamen and soldiers had fanned out across the capital in a show of force. A car bomb killed six people in the city.

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