The Iraqi Parliament put in place an important building block of an anti-ISIS strategy on Monday when it approved, in record time, a new power-sharing government led by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Harder work lies ahead as Mr. Abadi, a member of the Shiite majority, tries to manage sectarian rivals in his cabinet and unify a fractured country, all while working with the United States to eliminate a mortal threat from marauding Sunni militants who occupy a huge swath of northern Iraq.
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