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...
by Hamza Mustafa | May 2, 2016 | Middle East
Baghdad-The Iraqi government decided on Sunday to hire Peshmerga forces in order to protect the Green Zone after the Iraqi forces failed in securing the zone with a political crisis in Iraq heading towards a dangerous detour. An Iraqi source told Asharq Al-Awsat that...
by Hamza Mustafa | Feb 3, 2015 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi MPs for Diyala province, including Speaker of Parliament Salim Al-Jabouri, have received death threats warning them to stop all investigations into a massacre that took place in a village in the region last week, according to one MP from...
by Ma'ad Fayad | Sep 19, 2014 | Interviews
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s new parliametary speaker Salim Al-Jabouri faces a tough task heading the country’s top legislative body at a time when political blocs are jockeying for position behind the Haider Al-Abadi government to confront the...
by Hamza Mustafa | Mar 27, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s parliament is set to issue a resolution giving the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) judicial immunity following its decision to resign this week, in a bid to preserve its independence and impartiality. In comments to...
