by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 22, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—In a speech delivered Friday, Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki called on his political rivals to invest in oil rather than seeking foreign investment. During the inauguration ceremony of Al-Gharraf oilfield in the Dhi Qar province in the...
by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 14, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—A senior figure from the Sadr Movement, led by Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, said the movement was now the most powerful on the Iraqi political scene on Monday. He also said he was unsurprised by criticism of the Sadr movement from the prime...
by Hamza Mustafa | Jan 24, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sadr movement leader, Moqtada Al-Sadr, struck a fatal blow to the seven-member committee tasked by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki to consider the demands of protesters, announcing the withdrawal of all Sadr movement ministers from this...
