Saleh Abdullah al-Jubouri is an Iraqi independent politician who is the current Industry Minister in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi. [1]
He was approved by the Council of Representatives on 24 October 2018. [1] [2]
Iraq is a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic. It is a multi-party system whereby the executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers as the head of government, the President of Iraq as the head of state, and legislative power is vested in the Council of Representatives.
The Prime Minister of Iraq is the head of government of Iraq. On 27 October 2022, Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani became the incumbent prime minister.
Sadr City, formerly known as Al-Thawra and Saddam City, is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1959 by Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim and later unofficially renamed Sadr City after Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.
Muqtada al-Sadr is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric, politician and militia leader. He is the leader of the Sadrist Movement and the leader of the Peace Companies, a successor to the militia he had previously led during the American military presence in Iraq, the "Mahdi Army." In 2018, he joined his Sadrist political party to the Saairun alliance, which won the highest number of seats in the 2018 and 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections.
Barham Salih is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the eighth president of Iraq from 2018 to 2022.
Adil Abdul-Mahdi al-Muntafiki is an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq from October 2018 until May 2020. Abdul-Mahdi is an economist and was one of the vice presidents of Iraq from 2005 to 2011. He formerly served as Minister of Finance in the Interim government and Oil Minister from 2014 to 2016.
Thamir Abbas Ghadhban is an Iraqi civil servant and politician.
Ahmed Al-Hasan has been called the most prominent of figures claiming to be the messianic al-Yamani, in the chaos following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. In Twelver Shi'ism Islam, the majority religion of Iraq, al-Yamani is "the deputy of the Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, and a precursor to his Reappearance" and to End Times.
The departure of US troops from Iraq in 2011 ended the period of occupation that had begun with the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. The time since U.S. withdrawal has been marked by a renewed Iraqi insurgency and by a spillover of the Syrian civil war into Iraq. By 2013, the insurgency escalated into a renewed war, the central government of Iraq being opposed by ISIL and various factions, primarily radical Sunni forces during the early phase of the conflict. The war ended in 2017 with an Iraqi government and allied victory, however ISIL continues a low-intensity insurgency in remote parts of the country.
The Abdul Mahdi government was the government of Iraq, headed by Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi. It was approved by the Council of Representatives on 24 October 2018 and followed a general election in May 2018. The United Nations described the formation as an "exemplary peaceful transfer of power".
Fuad Mohammed Hussein is an Iraqi Kurdish politician from the Kurdistan Democratic Party who is the current Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was previously the Minister of Finance in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
Salih Hussein Jabr al-Hassani is an Iraqi independent politician who is the current Agriculture Minister in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
Naim Thjeel Yousir Al-Rubaie is an Iraqi independent politician who was Communications Minister from 2018 to 2020 in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi. He was approved by the Council of Representatives on 24 October 2018.
Bangen Abdullah Rekani is an Iraqi politician from the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He is the Minister of Construction and Housing and Municipalities and Public works from 2018 til now 2023. He had previously served as Minister of Justice in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
Bassem al-Rubaye is an Iraqi independent politician who is the current Labour & Social Affairs Minister in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
Mohammad Hashim is an Iraqi independent politician who served as Trade Minister in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
Jamal Abbas al-Adli is an Iraqi independent politician who is the current Water Resources Minister in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
Ahmed Riad Obeidi is an Iraqi independent politician and a former Youth & Sport Minister in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi. He was proposed by the al-Hal movement and approved by the Council of Representatives on 24 October 2018.
Dr. Qusay Abdul Wahab al-Suhail is an Iraqi politician from the Sadrist Movement who is the current Minister of Higher Education in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
A series of demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and civil disobedience took place in Iraq from 2019 until 2021. It started on 1 October 2019, a date which was set by civil activists on social media, spreading mainly over the central and southern provinces of Iraq, to protest corruption, high unemployment, political sectarianism, inefficient public services and foreign interventionism. Protests spread quickly, coordinated over social media, to other provinces in Iraq. As the intensity of the demonstrations peaked in late October, protesters’ anger focused not only on the desire for a complete overhaul of the Iraqi government but also on driving out Iranian influence, including Iranian-aligned Shia militias. The government, with the help of Iranian-backed militias responded brutally, using live bullets, marksmen, hot water, hot pepper gas and tear gas against protesters, leading to many deaths and injuries.