A combo made on April 26, 2014 of file pictures shows the five key players in the Iraqi parliamentary election to be held on April 30, 2014. (L to R) Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, President of Kurdistan autonomous region, Massud Barzani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The parliamentary election is the first one since US troops left in 2011. AFP PHOTO