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Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri. Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraqi Court Releases Jabouri

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 10, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad-Hours after the parliamentary vote to strip Iraq’s Speaker Salim al-Jabouri of his immunity, Iraq’s Higher Judicial Council dropped charges against him and closed the case. Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Judge Abdul Sattar Bayraqdar said in a statement on...

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Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad July 31, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ – Tags: POLITICS) – RTR2PHJW

Osama Al-Nujaifi: Jabouri Failed in Managing Iraqi Parliament

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 8, 2016 | Interviews

Baghdad – Iraqi prominent leader Osama Al-Nujaifi said that his government has held several meetings with the Turkish government, before and after the failed coup against President Recep Tayyib Erdogan. During an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on...

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Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri. Asharq Al-Awsat

Mashhadani, Mutlaq most Prominent Candidates to Succeed Jabouri

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 7, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad-At a time when Parliament Speaker Salim Jabouri confirmed on Saturday that Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi will be judicially held accountable whether the latter’s accusations of corruption were proven or not. Obeidi denounced the leaking of confidential...

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Iraqi parliament speaker Salim al-Jabouri, center, speaks to reporters during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, April 13, 2016 (AP)

Iraqi Judiciary Imposes Travel Ban on Parliament Speaker

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 5, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad – An Iraqi investigative judiciary commission imposed a travel ban on the speaker of parliament, two lawmakers and several other people in connection with corruption allegations. A Judiciary spokesman, Abdelsattar Bayraqdar, said on Thursday that the...

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Iraq’s President Fouad Massoum (L), Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (R) and Ammar al-Hakim (C), leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), attend a conference dialogue among religious sects in Baghdad January 31, 2015. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Iraq’s Defense Minister Accuses Deputies of Corruption

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 2, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad- Iraq’s Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi, accompanied with prominent officers, has entered on Monday the Iraqi parliament to be questioned over corruption allegations brought forward by Iraqi parliamentary Alia Nasif. There, Obeidi dropped a bomb when...