Muqtada al-Sadr is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric,politician and militia leader. He inherited the leadership of the Sadrist Movement from his father. He founded the now dissolved Mahdi Army militia in 2003 that resisted the American occupation of Iraq. He also founded the Promised Day Brigade militia after the dissolution of the Mahdi Army;both were backed by Iran. In 2014,he founded the Peace Companies militia and is its current head. 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.
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.
Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari,or simply Hoshyar Zebari is an Iraqi - Kurdish politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the country in 2014 and as Minister of Finance until 2016. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2014.
The prime minister of Lebanon,officially the president of the Council of Ministers,is the head of government and the head of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon. The prime minister is appointed by the president of Lebanon,with the consent of the plurality of the members of the Parliament of Lebanon. By convention,the office holder is always a Sunni Muslim.
Al-Obaidi is one of the Arab tribes in Iraq settled around Al Jazira,Mesopotamia. It is a noble Arab tribe,descended from former Arabian Royalty;who ruled over a sheikhdom and eventual sultanate in Najd in modern day Saudi Arabia for over 800 years continuously,prior to their banishment to modern day Iraq. It hails from the tribe of Zubaid,which itself is an offshoot of the ancient Yemenite tribe Madh'hij. The tribe was an influential one,and faced some rivalry from the House of Saud during the establishment of the first Saudi State. The tribe migrated from Najd in Saudi Arabia circa 1750s. The Al-Obaidis descend from a branch of Zubaid who became Sultans over part of Najd prior to their defeat by Al-Saud and their banishment to Iraq. The migration of this branch of the family was led by the final Zubaidi Sultan in Najd:Sultan Jabr bin Maktoum Al Zubaidi. His eldest son Sultan Obaid,is the founder of the Al-Obaidi family,and subsequent tribe.
Saleh Muhammed al-Mutlaq is an Iraqi politician who is the head of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue,the fifth largest political list in Iraq's parliament. From 21 December 2010 to 11 August 2015,he was one of the three deputy prime ministers of Iraq.
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki,also known as Jawad al-Maliki,is an Iraqi politician and leader of the Islamic Dawa Party since 2007. He served as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and as Vice President from 2014 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2018.
General Abdulqadir Mohammed Jassim Al-Mafraji commonly known as Abdul Qadir Al-Obeidi or Obeidi (Arabic:عبدالقادرالعبيدي,was the 31st Defence Minister of Iraq in the Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from June 2006 to December 2010.
Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three vice presidents of the country,from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. As the speaker of the Council of Representatives,the informal leader of the moderate Sunni al-Hadba party was the highest ranking Sunni politician of Iraq.
Khamis al-Obeidi was a lawyer defending Saddam Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti,from the time the former leader's trial began in Baghdad on October 19,2005,until his assassination. He was a Sunni Muslim,was married and had three children.
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 7 March 2010. The elections decided the 325 members of the Council of Representatives who would elect the prime minister and president. The elections resulted in a partial victory for the Iraqi National Movement,led by former Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi,which won 91 seats,making it the largest alliance in the Council. The State of Law Coalition,led by incumbent Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki,was the second largest grouping with 89 seats.
The Ministry of Defence is the cabinet-level ministry responsible for national defence in Iraq. It is also involved with internal security.
Harith Mohey Al Deen Abd al-Obeidi was an Iraqi politician and cleric and member of Parliament for the Iraqi Accord Front. He was assassinated on 12 June 2009.
This article concerns the formation process of the Al Maliki I Government of Iraq in the aftermath of the Iraq National Assembly being elected on December 15,2005. Due to disputes over alleged vote-rigging the results of the election were only certified by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq on February 10,2006.
The 2012–2013 Iraqi protests started on 21 December 2012 following a raid on the home of Sunni Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi and the arrest of 10 of his bodyguards. Beginning in Fallujah,the protests afterwards spread throughout Sunni Arab parts of Iraq. The protests centered on the issue of the alleged sectarianism of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Pro-Maliki protests also took place throughout central and southern Iraq,where there is a Shia Arab majority. In April 2013,sectarian violence escalated after the 2013 Hawija clashes. The protests continued throughout 2013,and in December Maliki used security forces to forcefully close down the main protest camp in Ramadi,leaving at least ten gunmen and three policemen dead in the process.
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 Al Abadi government was approved by the Assembly on 8 September 2014,following the general election in April 2014. The names of thirty five ministers were approved,with the defense and interior ministries not yet filled. On 18 October 2014,the Iraq parliament named Khaled al-Obaidi,a member of parliament's Sunni Arab Itihad al-Quwa al-Wataniyah bloc as defense minister,and Mohammed Al-Ghabban,a member of the Shiite Badr bloc,as interior minister. In August 2015,following popular protests against corruption and lack of services,backed by senior cleric Ali al-Sistani,the Prime Minister reduced the cabinet to 22 members.
Mustafa Abdul Latif Mishatat,known as Mustafa al-Kadhimi,alternatively spelt Mustafa al-Kadhimy,is an Iraqi politician,lawyer,bureaucrat and former intelligence officer who served as the Prime Minister of Iraq from May 2020 to October 2022. He previously served as columnist for several news outlets and the Director of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service,originally appointed in June 2016. He briefly served as Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs in an acting capacity in 2020. The latter part of his tenure closely followed the 2022 Iraqi political crisis.
The Azem Alliance is a political party in Iraq. It is headed by the Sunni businessman Khamis al-Khanjar and includes prominent Sunni figures,such as former parliament speakers Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and Salim al-Jabouri,and former defence minister Khaled al-Obaidi.
Between the parliamentary election in October 2021 and October 2022,there was a political crisis in Iraq,with members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq being unable to form a stable coalition government,or elect a new President. Basic government services such as the civil service and military continued functioning,but the national political system was in deadlock including in respect of almost all major spending and taxation issues. On 27 October 2022,the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani was approved by the Council of Representatives.
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