Political crisis brews as Iraq PM clings on to post

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime minister said he would sue the president on Monday in a desperate bid to cling to his job, deploying security forces across Baghdad even as violence raged in the north.

A defiant Nuri al-Maliki made his shock announcement after three days of US strikes against jihadist militants in the north of Iraq and in spite of mounting calls for him to step aside.