Iraq

2023-11-20T10:03:43+00:00

Shafaq News/ The Sovereignty Coalition, a Sunni-led political bloc in the Iraqi parliament, on Monday said that the selection of the new speaker of the Iraqi parliament is the exclusive right of the Sunnis, and that the Coordination Framework, a consortium of mainly Iran-backed Shiite

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Iraq

2023-11-19T20:59:39+00:00

Shafaq News/ Iraq's populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sunday called on the country's tribes to stand with the Palestinian people in the face of Israeli aggression.

In a post on the social media platform X, al-Sadr said that Iraqi tribes had a "distinguished" role in the 1920

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Iraq

2023-11-19T18:20:57+00:00

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani on Sunday received the parliament's security and defense committee for talks on the security preparations for the local election in December.

The meeting, according to a press release by the premier's bureau, touched on the

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Iraq

2023-11-19T13:27:37+00:00

Shafaq News / Deputy Bassem Khashan declared his victory in a lawsuit he filed against the former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi concerning the unconstitutional nature of the instructions regarding the formation of the Secretariat General of the Council of Ministers.

Khashan stated in a

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Iraq

2023-11-19T14:21:00+00:00

Shafaq News/ Iran, Turkey, and Qatar have been engaged in backchannel talks with Iraqi Sunni and Shiite political parties over the selection of a new speaker of the Iraqi parliament following Mohammad al-Halboosi's ouster, multiple sources revealed on Sunday.

A source told Shafaq News

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Iraq

2023-11-19T13:26:42+00:00

Shafaq News / The Supreme Federal Court, the highest judicial authority in Iraq, clarified on Sunday the justifications behind its decision to terminate the membership of the Speaker of the Parliament, Mohammed Al-Halbousi, and the constitutional articles it relied on.

The Court stated

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