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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
