Shafaq News/ Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Shiyaa al-Sudani will dissolve the "Accountability and Justice Commission" when his cabinet takes over, a leading figure in the Sunni al-Siyada bloc revealed on Sunday.

The commission, dominated by Shiite politicians, is tasked with rooting out former Dictator Saddam Hussein loyalists, but

Shafaq News/ Al-Rusafa's Criminal Court on Sunday sentenced a brother of a former governor of Basra to seven years in prison for "insulting the Iraqi armed forces" in a post on social media.

A high-level source told Shafaq News Agency that Ismail Musbeh al-Waeli had been handed a seven-year sentence in absentia in accordance with Article 266 of the

Shafaq News/ A distasted Badr Organization has pulled out Qasem Al-Araji's candidacy for the interior portfolio in the unborn cabinet of Mohammad Shiyaa al-Sudani, a leading figure from inside the Iran-backed Shiite faction said as obstacles pile up ahead of a parliamentary session called in to award the government confidence.

The Iraqi National

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Shiyaa al-Sudani on Sunday received in Baghdad the United Nations ambassador to Iraq, Ville Varjola, and the head of mission for the European Union Advisory Mission in Iraq (EUAM Iraq), Anders Wiberg, and their accompanying delegation.

According to a readout issued by his bureau, the meeting