Relief as Iraq's Maliki bows out, but fear little will change

Iraqis and foreign brokers alike breathed a sigh of relief Friday after Nuri al-Maliki stepped aside, which many saw as vital to tackling a spiralling military and humanitarian crisis. Support for Maliki's designated replacement, Haidar al-Abadi, has poured in from sources as diverse as Iran and Saudi Arabia. When jihadist forces launched a major offensive on June 9, Kurdish peshmerga forces ...