Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the current president of chess governing body FIDE, beat former world chess champion and Russian dissident Garry Kasparov to win another four-year term. The election turned bitter as the two men sparred over their political ties.
With all U.S. troops set to leave Iraq by year's end, the U.S. Army is planning to transform a logistics base in Kuwait back into a base for combat force.
After months of uncertainty, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has been nominated to a second term. Though this sign of stability in the Iraqi government might otherwise be a relief for the United States, the State Department is unnerved.
In the third attack in two days in Iraq, simultaneous attacks by suicide bombers targeted the most important Shiite shrine in Baghdad. Is this a sign of widespread civil unrest? Or a temporary but dramatic upsurge in violence?
A series of six car bombs exploded in or near Baghdad on Monday, killing more than 30 people and wounding scores more. For the latest, The Takeaway is joined by the New York Times' Baghdad correspondent Steven Lee Myers.