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.
The tribe of Shammar is a tribal Arab Qahtanite confederation,descended from the Tayy,which migrated into the northern Arabian Peninsula from Yemen in the second century. It is the largest branch of the Tayy,and one of the largest and most influential Arab tribes. The historical and traditional seat of the tribe's leadership is in the city of Ḥaʼil in what was the Emirate of Jabal Shammar in what is now Saudi Arabia. In its "golden age",around 1850,the Shammar ruled much of central and northern Arabia from Riyadh to the frontiers of Syria and the vast area of Upper Mesopotamia.
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.
Niklas Åke Wykman is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has served as Minister for Financial Markets in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since October 2022 and has been Member of the Riksdag since the 2014 general election,representing Stockholm County. He was chairman of the Moderate Youth League,the youth wing of the Moderate Party,from 2006 to 2010.
Peter Bratt is a Swedish journalist. For many years he worked for the national Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter until he quit 2003.
Naziha Jawdet Ashgah al-Dulaimi was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement. She was a co-founder and the first president of the Iraqi Women's League,the first woman minister in modern Iraq history,and the first woman cabinet minister in the Arab world.
Iraq–Sweden relations are foreign relations between Iraq and Sweden. Iraq has an embassy in Stockholm,and a new Swedish embassy opened in Baghdad in 2009. Iraq has severed all ties with Sweden since July 2023,after Swedish authorities allowed a man to burn the Iraqi flag and the Quran in front of the Iraqi Embassy,Stockholm.
On 11 December 2010,two bombs exploded in central Stockholm,killing the bomber. Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt and the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) described the bombings as acts of terrorism.
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.
Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is an Iraqi politician who has been the Prime Minister of Iraq since 27 October 2022. Prior to his premiership,he held a number of ministerial positions;namely,Minister of Industry and Minerals,Minister of Labour and Social Affairs,acting Minister of Trade,acting Minister of Finance,acting Minister of Migration and Displacement,acting Minister of Agriculture,and Minister of Human Rights. He was Governor of Maysan in 2009-2010.
Sweden is home to one of the largest communities of the Mandaean ethnoreligious group,numbering between 10,000-20,000 people (2019). By comparison,there are now only about 3,000 Mandaeans in Iraq. Several thousand Swedish Mandaeans were granted asylum status as refugees from persecution in Iraq and Syria. Sweden is currently home to the largest Mandaean community in Europe.
The Embassy of Sweden in Baghdad is Sweden's diplomatic mission in Iraq. The mission consists of an embassy,a number of Swedes from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and local staff. Ambassador since 2022 is Jessica Svärdström.
Erfan al-Hiyali was the Defence minister of Iraq,serving in the Cabinet of Haider al-Abadi. The Iraqi parliament voted on al-Hiyali as defense minister on 30 January 2017. He was succeeded by Najah al-Shammari on 24 June 2019. He was also formerly the Commander of Iraqi Central Command.
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 12 May 2018. The elections decided the 329 members of the Council of Representatives,the country's unicameral legislature,who in turn will elect the Iraqi president and prime minister. The Iraqi parliament ordered a manual recount of the results on 6 June 2018. On 10 June 2018,a storage site in Baghdad housing roughly half of the ballots from the May parliamentary election caught fire.
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".
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.
Events in the year 2020 in Iraq.
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.
Yazidism in Iraq refers to adherents of Yazidism from Iraq who reside mainly in the districts of Shekhan,Simele,Zakho and Tel Kaif,in Bashiqa and Bahzani,and the areas around Sinjar mountains in Sinjar district. According to estimates,the number of Yazidis in Iraq is up to 700,000. According to the Yazda aid organization,just over half a million Yazidis lived throughout Iraq before August 2014.
