by Saeed Abdel Razek and Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 8, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara, Irbil – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held telephone talks on Saturday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on the latest developments in the aftermath of the Kurdish independence referendum. Turkish sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the two...
by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 21, 2015 | Middle East
Baghdad and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s former vice president Iyad Allawi, whose post was canceled by Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, has called for Iraqi MPs to remove the PM. Abadi canceled Iraq’s three vice president posts in August as part of a drive to weed...
by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 1, 2015 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Two of Iraq’s three outgoing vice presidents say Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi’s decision to cancel their posts is unconstitutional. In exclusive comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Osama Al-Nujaifi, one of the three vice president post-holders,...
by Manaf Al-Obaidi | Feb 22, 2015 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Vice-President Iyad Allawi has unveiled a deal with senior Shi’ite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr to form a “supra-sectarian and ethnic” bloc in the Iraqi parliament, one week after the killing of a prominent Sunni sheikh threatened to...
by Mina Al-Oraibi | Jan 28, 2015 | Interviews
Davos, Asharq Al-Awsat—With new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi having passed the 100-day mark in office earlier this year, Vice President Iyad Allawi has given a grim prognosis regarding the political future of the country and the ongoing battle against the...
