The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a political party active in Kurdistan Region and the disputed territories in Iraq. The PUK describes its goals as self-determination,human rights,democracy and peace for the Kurdish people of Kurdistan and Iraq. The PUK is currently under the leadership of Bafel Talabani. The PUK was founded in 1975 by Jalal Talabani,Nawshirwan Mustafa,Fuad Masum,Adel Murad,Ali Askari and Abdul Razaq Feyli. All presidents of Iraq under the 2005 constitution have been from this party.
Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from September 2014 until October 2018. Previously he served as Minister of Communication from 2003 to 2004,in the first government after Saddam Hussein was deposed.
Barham Salih is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the eighth president of Iraq from 2018 to 2022.
On 19 May 1992 elections were held to the Kurdistan National Assembly,the parliament of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. At the time,the National Assembly had 105 seats,of which 5 were reserved for the Assyrian community. Parties had to achieve more than 7% of the vote to be elected. There were 178 polling stations around the region.
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki,also known as Jawad al-Maliki,is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Al-Maliki began his political career as a Shia dissident under Saddam Hussein's in the late 1970s and rose to prominence after he fled a death sentence into exile for 24 years. During his time abroad,he became a senior leader of the Islamic Dawa Party,coordinated the activities of anti-Saddam guerrillas and built relationships with Iranian and Syrian officials whose help he sought in overthrowing Saddam. Al-Maliki worked closely with United States and coalition forces in Iraq following their departure by the end of 2011.
Koy Sanjaq,also called Koye is a town and district in Erbil Governorate in Kurdistan Region,Iraq. In the town,there is a Chaldean Catholic church of Mar Yousif,constructed in 1923.
Adel Murad was an Iraqi Kurdish politician whom along with Jalal Talabani,Nawshirwan Mustafa,Kamal Fuad,Ali Askari,Fuad Masum and Abdul Razaq Faily,was the co-founder of the main opposition party,the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. He had previously served as representative of PUK in Baghdad under Iraq's Transitional Government and a Representative of Jalal Talabani in Damascus. He was a graduate of the University of Baghdad,with an MSC in Chemistry. Once a commander and Peshmerga veteran,Murad has since been calling for international support and armament from including Russia to support the Peshmerga forces.
Fuad is a masculine Arabic given name,meaning "heart" - the beating circulating heart,the concept of "mind and spirit".
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 30 April 2014. The elections decided the 328 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and prime minister.
The General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries abbreviated as GMCIR or MCIR,is a Ba'athist militant group active in Iraq headed by Saddam Hussein-era military and political leaders. It has been described by Al Jazeera as "one of the main groups" in the Iraqi insurgency.
Muhammad Fuad Masum is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the seventh president of Iraq from 24 July 2014 to 2 October 2018. He was elected as president following the 2014 parliamentary election. Masum is the second non-Arab president of Iraq,succeeding Jalal Talabani,also Kurdish,and was a confidant of Talabani.
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 following lists events that happened during 2014 in Iraq.
Iran is an opponent of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),fighting the group in Syria and Iraq.
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Iraq.
Suhaib al-Rawi is an Iraqi politician and the former Governor of Anbar until August 2017. He is a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party.
Juwan is a given name. It may refer to:
Events in the year 2017 in Iraq.
Events in the year 2018 in Iraq.
Dr. Mohammad Saber Ismail is an Iraqi Kurdish diplomat and politician from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. He was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 2013 to 2016. He was nominated by the PUK in August 2018 as their candidate to succeed Fuad Masum as President of Iraq.
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan