power-sharing

Local pushback against ISIS domination in these areas to bring a power sharing arrangement, seems ever more remote.

Maliki won a second term as prime minister, in 2010, by negotiating a power-sharing deal with rival parties.

He wants the Maliki government in Baghdad to get its act together on genuine power-sharing before commencing U.S. military action.

The tape may have been referring to a late January power sharing deal that has since been rejected by opposition leaders.

Neither power-sharing nor a transitional government is realistic.