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As part of the efforts for reforms, 13 Iraqi ministers are said to be removed from their posts in the near future. MP Fazil Fatlawi pointed out that apart from the 13 ministers, several general directors and other officials will lose their positions as well in the upcoming parliamentary sessions, pointing that the replacements would […]

Tribal leaders in the Iraqi Shia holy city of Karbala refused on Wednesday an invitation by PM Adil Abdul Mahdi to meet him for talks on the current situation in the country. Abdul Mahdi reportedly invited the tribal leaders in hopes of giving him advice on the current evolving situation as the premier noted that […]

Iraqi protesters blocked the entrance to Khor al-Zubair commodities port in the southern province of Basra. “Unloading operations of commodities and goods which need to be transported by trucks have been completely halted,” a port official said. The port is used to export cargoes of gas condensates and receives refined oil product shipments, construction and […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed The United States threaten to sanction the Iraqi “corrupt individuals” without taking their rank into consideration. “We will not stand idle while the corrupt officials make the Iraqi people suffer,” Pompeo told reporters. “The United States will use our legal authority to sanction corrupt individuals that are stealing Iraqis’ […]