09.09.2014 • 7 Min.

Iraq's squabbling political class has formed a new government under Haider Abadi amid pressure to present a united front against the Islamist militants threatening to break up the country. Borzou Daraghi, the FT's Middle East correspondent, tells Fiona Symon how the deal was done. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.