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Kurdistan24
January 26, 2018
The Iraqi fugitive is wanted in at least nine different corruption cases and received eight sentences of imprisonment in absentia for graft charges related to food import violations, the watchdog's statement added. Al-Sudani, who holds British citizenship, was a member of the Islamic Dawa Party led by former Prime MinisterÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
January 26, 2018
Iraqi Shiite parties have formed four main coalitions for the upcoming parliamentary elections, but they are expected to join forces after the vote to take ... looming over how Abadi would leave the State of Law Coalition, as he was previously registered as a candidate in the list of the Dawa Party, led by Maliki.
Al-Monitor
January 18, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi now faces a potential rapprochement between two of his rivals: Vice President Nouri al-Maliki and Massoud Barzani. Maliki is the current leader of the Islamic Dawa Party, and Barzani is head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and former president of the KurdistanÃÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
January 13, 2018
Iraq's Vice President Nouri al-Maliki (L) and new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi shake hands during the session to approve the new government in ... Due to disagreements with the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and the Sadrists, the Dawa Party decided not to join the Iraqi National Alliance for the IraqiÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
January 11, 2018
The Dawa Party's Shura Council urged both Abadi and Maliki to join one electoral list as election laws in Iraq do not allow the participation of two persons from one political party in separate electoral circles. Razaq Muheibis, an Iraqi MP from the al-Badr Organization, told al-Hurra TV that “Abadi had finalized his electoral listÃÂ ...
Atlantic Council (blog)
January 9, 2018
Despite this rift, neither Abadi nor Maliki have abandoned the Dawa party, which seems to have learned to use such divisions to its advantage. Iraqi media reports suggest that the party will likely enter the next parliamentary and provincial elections (scheduled in May although there is increasing pressureÃÂ ...
Arab News
January 8, 2018
BAGHDAD: Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki will participate in the forthcoming parliamentary election, but refuses to do so as part of a joint electoral list with his successor Haider Abadi, ... Ali Alaq, a Dawa leader, told Arab News that the party “wants to participate in the election in one electoral list.”
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
Najaf Governor Luay al-Yasiri is a member of the Dawa Party led by former Iraqi Prime Minister and current Vice-President, Nouri al-Maliki, a prominent member of the State of Law coalition, and served as Director of Najaf Traffic Police for several years. The Najaf Governor holds the military rank of Colonel within the InteriorÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
Out of more than 200 Islamist parties registered with the Independent Electoral Commission, only some 10 have names explicitly invoking Islam, such as the Islamic Dawa Party, the Islamic Virtue Party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the Iraqi Islamic Party, the Iraqi Organization of Islamic Action andÃÂ ...
Rudaw
September 25, 2017
“We hope for a unified Iraq to defeat ISIS and to push back against Iran,” ... Kirkuk Governor Najmaldin Karim slammed Iraqi Prime Minister Haider .... of Iraq," said Maliki, the head of the Dawa Party and the Iraq's ruling State ofÃÂ ...
The Cipher Brief
September 24, 2017
Reset Ahead for Iran and U.S. in Iraq after ISIS Fall ... links with the Iraqi federal government, the ruling Dawa Party, and a number of regionalÃÂ ...
Middle East Online
September 18, 2017
One of the strongest parties from the National Iraqi Alliance that has experienced this shift is the Dawa party, which has undergone a three-wayÃÂ ...
Rudaw
September 17, 2017
US Ambassador to Iraq Douglas Sliman [L] meets with the Iraqi Vice ... of the ruling Dawa Party who fills the position of the Iraqi prime ministry.
Iranian
September 16, 2017
Uneasy Alliance: Iran Tries To Ensure Iraqi Leadership Remains Loyal ... Iran wants to reunite the fighting Shiite Muslim political parties in Iraq that once gave it .... By rights it would be the turn of the Dawa party, the party thatÃÂ ...
Intelligencer Post
September 13, 2017
Division is nothing new in the Dawa Party, which was founded in 1950s. ... Iraqi political arena,” Dr. Ronen Zeidel from Center for Iraq StudiesÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
September 13, 2017
It appears Iran is trying to draw Iraqi Shiites together, but many ... in the Islamic Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq before heÃÂ ...
Rudaw
September 8, 2017
BAGHDAD, Iraq – A senior member of the ruling Shiite National Alliance ... which also includes Abadi's Dawa party, announced at the time theÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
September 3, 2017
When Nouri Maliki's Dawa Party came to power in Iraq in 2005 he had ... appointed as vice-president for de-Baathification of the former IraqiÃÂ ...
Rudaw
August 16, 2017
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The powerful Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki, ... PM Haider al-Abadi on Monday who is from the Maliki-led party of Dawa.
OilPrice.com
August 16, 2017
Iraq's anti-corruption push has led the governor of oil-rich Basra to quit his job ... The Islamic Dawa Party candidate campaigned on a strongÃÂ ...
STRATFOR
August 15, 2017
Iraq's political parties will have to balance the financial and political support they ... Iraqi politicians, meanwhile, will form new coalitions across party and ... (then Iraq's prime minister) has led Dawa's most powerful faction.
Rudaw
August 14, 2017
Maliki and Abadi are from the ruling Dawa Party. ... Kurdish oil exports under Iraqi control in return for releasing Kurdistan's budget from Iraq.
Middle East Eye
August 3, 2017
Saudi Arabia grew very frustrated over the Iranian expansion in Iraq after ... for example the Dawa Party and other weaker Iraqi secularists, bothÃÂ ...
Arab News
July 30, 2017
Iran spent a small fortune re-establishing ISCI on Iraqi soil. ... Along with the Islamic Dawa Party (led by former Prime Minister Nouri Al-MalikiÃÂ ...
Asia Times
July 28, 2017
Almost single-handedly, Malki steered Iraq fully into the Iranian orbit, using his Dawa Party to infiltrate the Iraqi civil service and armed forcesÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
July 21, 2017
Abadi backers stand in the way of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri ... Abadi is a member of the Islamic Dawa Party, which is closely linked toÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
July 19, 2017
Another reason for the Iranian regime increasing its intervention in Iraq today is the upcoming Iraqi elections. If the Islamic Dawa Party with theÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
Jan Kubis, the UN special representative to the secretary-general in Iraq, meets with Nouri al-Maliki in 2016 prior to the Mosul offensive.
Middle East Monitor
March 24, 2017
It was not immediately clear who Al-Sadr was referring to when referring to his own possible assassination, but he has a fierce political rivalry with other Shia parties also loyal to Iran that has led to intrasectarian violence, such as the ruling ...
Middle East Monitor
March 23, 2017
Al-Maliki is the leader of Al-Abadi's Shia Islamist Dawa Party and controls the State of Law Coalition, part of the National Alliance.
Huffington Post
March 20, 2017
al-Abadi knows Iraq will never survive unless it receives real support comes from Washington. Thus, in the coming August election, al-Abadi might break away from Al Dawa Islamic party currently led by former prime minister Nouri Al Maliki, and instead ...
Independent Turkey
March 10, 2017
But the question remains: once the unlikely coalition of anti-ISIS forces completes its objective of driving the militant group from its Iraqi capital of Mosul, who will fill the vacuum? Turkey and Saudi Arabia are increasingly working together to ...
RealClearWorld
March 10, 2017
While Iraqi forces are fighting to retake the western half of Mosul from Islamic State fighters, internal divisions regarding the future of Iraq's political process are escalating ahead of provincial elections scheduled for September, especially within ...
Al-Monitor
March 8, 2017
In addition, Iran's creation and nurturing of nonstate actors in Arab countries - such as Hezbollah and the Islamic Dawa Party in Iraq - was viewed as a direct threat by Gulf countries. Hezbollah is perceived by Gulf states as a powerful tool serving ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 1, 2017
Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi cleric leading the pre-dominantly Shi'ite Sadrist Movement, denounced the protest and hinted that loyalists backing former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are responsible for the riot.
Daily Times
February 21, 2017
ISLAMABAD: PPP Senator Rehman Malik on Tuesday urged the government to convene an All Parties Conference (APC) to evolve a joint strategy against terrorism.
Al-Monitor
February 20, 2017
The use of violence against those who took part in the demonstrations that started Feb. 11 upon the request of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to demand that the electoral commission accused of corruption be overhauled might lead Iraq to a crossroads and ...
Al-Arabiya
February 20, 2017
The ongoing political struggle in Iraq between Sadrists and the Dawa Party is a Shiite-Shiite struggle. It is between two Islamized and politicized groups belonging to the same sect.
Aljazeera.com
February 19, 2017
Abbas al-Bayati, a member of the ruling Islamic Dawa Party, told Al Jazeera that the US was "supporting us in the fight against terrorism.
Times of India
February 3, 2017
NEW DELHI: Months after Indian Army carried out surgical strikes+ in response to a terrorist attack on a military base in north Kashmir's Uri area last year, home minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that India cannot rule out more such strikes across ...
Second Line of Defense
February 1, 2017
"Iraq can not be rebuilt with the current Iraqi government in charge. Iranian influence is simply too dominant." The Generals highlighted that increasingly the Iraqi Army has become a Dawa-party dominated force. All three were also adamant that the ...
NCR-Iran.org
January 31, 2017
When I asked Talabani about the fictitious cases Maleki had made up, Talabani said that "following the overthrow of the former Iraqi regime in 2003, Nouri al-Maleki came to visit us in Erbil, saying that 'al-Dawa party has decided to purge the Iraqi ...
Yahoo Singapore News
January 30, 2017
Francois Fillon, former French prime minister, member of The Republicans political party and 2017 presidential candidate of the French centre-right, arrives with his wife Penelope Fillon (R) to attend a political rally in Paris, France, January 29, 2017.
Yahoo Singapore News
January 30, 2017
Trump last week issued an executive order that put a temporary ban on allowing refugees into the country, an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria, and a 90-day ban on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. ... By Simon Lewis ...
Rudaw
January 28, 2017
But the opposition to Maliki, who was Iraq's longest serving prime minister since the overthrow of former regime in 2003, was strengthened by both Kurdish and Sunni leaders' tumultuous relations with the Shiite politician, often accusing him of ...
World Bank Group (blog)
January 27, 2017
However, the fact that seven national armies and 50 armed groups are listed by the U.N. Secretary General as parties that recruit and use children points to the persistence and severity of the violation.
Middle East Monitor
January 25, 2017
Harassment abroad is neither new or unexpected, and precedes the existing Dawa Party led government in Iraq. What is new is the way criminal elements perhaps associated with the Iraqi authorities are using violence to silence dissent and criticism ...
Iraqi News
January 22, 2017
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Kurdistan Region's President Masud Barzani threatened on Monday to declare the independence of the autonomous region from Iraq if Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki returns to the leadership of the government. "The moment ...
Rudaw
January 22, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan independence is "a dangerous issue," a senior Iraqi MP from the ruling Islamic Dawa Party, and who also held the position of national security adviser for five years, told Rudaw TV on Saturday night. He added thatÃÂ ...
Hillsdale Collegian
January 19, 2017
... bargaining with Iraq's leader could have prevented the tyrannical consolidation of the country's central government at the hands of Maliki, a man motivated by extremist sympathies, as was clear from his past involvement with the violent Dawa party.
