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Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani (L) meets with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Najaf, Iraq, in this July 24, 2014 file picture provided by the United Nations. (Reuters/Eskinder Debebe/UN/Handout via Reuters, file)

Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric calls for corrupt officials to be prosecuted

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 7, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, on Friday called for the prosecution of the most senior officials suspected of corruption and for the retrieval of stolen state funds. Sistani, whose word...

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Members of the Iraqi parliament attend a parliamentary vote of confidence at the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, Iraq, 08 September 2014. (EPA/Ali Abbas)

Iraq parliament approves new Defense, Interior ministers

by Hamza Mustafa | Oct 19, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi lawmakers on Saturday approved the appointment of Khaled Al-Obeidi as Iraqi Defense Minister and Mohamed Al-Ghabban as Interior Minister, ending a political stalemate that had threatened to disrupt Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi’s new...

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Former Iraqi finance minister Rafie Al-Issawi attends an anti-government demonstration in Ramadi, 62 miles (100 kilometers) west of Baghdad, on March 1, 2013. (Reuters/Ali Al-Mashhadani)

Exiled Sunni politician to be nominated as Iraq’s defense minister: source

by Ma'ad Fayad | Sep 30, 2014 | Middle East

Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—“Serious steps” are being taken to clear an exiled Iraqi politician of terror charges as a prelude to his nomination as minister of defense, sources close to Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi informed Asharq Al-Awsat on Monday. “Iraq’s judiciary...

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Iraqi minister of transportation, Hadi Al-Ameri, inspects volunteer fighters who joined the Iraqi army to fight against jihadist militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Al-Othaim in Diyala province, north of the capital Baghdad, on August 3, 2014. (AFP Photo/Amer Al-Saadi)

Hadi Al-Ameri: A Militia Leader Torn between Washington and Tehran

by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 25, 2014 | Profiles

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—When the leader of the Badr Organization, Hadi Al-Ameri, became Iraq’s minister of transport during former prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s second term in office, no one from Iraq’s political class or the major international political players...

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Haider Al-Abadi (L), and Iraq’s parliament speaker, Salim Al-Jabouri, attend a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq on July 15, 2014. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)

Iraq president names new PM but Maliki hangs tough

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 11, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Reuters—Iraq’s president named a new prime minister to replace Nuri Al-Maliki on Monday, urging him to form a broad government that can stem communal bloodshed, but it was unclear whether Maliki would bow to US and Iranian pressure to step aside. A...