In last week’s headlines : Turkish artillery fire kills nine tourists and injures 23 in northern Iraqi Kurdistan, audio leaks put Nouri al-Maliki’s back to the wall after sulphurous comments about Moqtada al-Sadr and the country’s main political leaders, Islamic State attack kills six Iraqi policemen in northern Baghdad, security cooperation at the centre of discussions between the Kurdish Prime Minister and the Iraqi Prime Minister, neither Nouri al-Maliki nor Hadi al-Amiri will run for the post of Iraqi Prime Minister…