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4 January – President Abdul Latif Rashid gives a speech at a memorial ceremony marking the martyrdom anniversary of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, stressing the importance of consolidating unity in Iraq, reaffirming national commitment of not allowing its territory to be used as a base for aggression against any of its neighbors. [4]
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to end the U.N. political mission in Iraq established in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to coordinate post ...
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Iraq is a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic.It is a multi-party system whereby the executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers as the head of government, the President of Iraq as the head of state, and legislative power is vested in the Council of Representatives.
The Iraqi Army announced a nationwide curfew. Protests and clashes also erupted in Basra and Maysan Governorate in southern Iraq. [24] On 30 August, fighting spread to Karbala and escalated in Basra as demonstrators stormed the Iraqi parliamentary office in Karbala [25] and blocked the entrance to Umm Qasr port. [26]
Two diplomats are quietly leading Iran's push to influence politics in Iraq, in a departure from the more blunt enforcement employed by Qassem Soleimani, a top commander slain in a U.S. air strike.
4 January – A US drone strike in Baghdad kills four Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba militants, including senior leader Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi. [1]5 January – Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces that the Iraqi government is beginning the process to remove the U.S.-led international military coalition from the country following U.S. drone strike on 4 January.
And there were dozens of attacks on U.S. military bases by Iran-backed factions in Iraq in the preceding months, raising fears of repeated traumatic brain injuries to Americans & renewing the state of undeclared de facto war. [10] 23 December – Seventeen PKK militants and 12 Turkish soldiers are killed during two days of shootouts in northern ...