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Prime Minister December 17, 2008 United States: George W. Bush: President: December 14, 2008 Lebanon: Fouad Siniora: Prime Minister August 20, 2008 Jordan: Abdullah II of Jordan [10] King: August 12, 2008 United Kingdom: Gordon Brown [11] Prime Minister July 19, 2008 Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: July 10, 2008 Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...
The countries of Middle East. Ten United States presidents have made presidential visits to the Middle East.The first trips by an incumbent president to countries in (or partly within) the Middle East were those by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and were an offshoot of Allied diplomatic interactions during World War II.
(Iraq Region) Saddam Hussein صدام حسين (1937–2006) 1996 2000: 29 May 1994 [13] 9 April 2003 [14] 8 years, 315 days Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region) • Iraqi Governing Council (2003–2004) • Mohammad Bahr al-Uloom محمد بحر العلوم (1927–2015) Acting Prime Minister — 13 July 2003 31 July 2003 18 days Independent
Bush visited Iraq in November 2003, about eight months after that conflict began. Due to security concerns, Bush waited until 2006 to make his first visit to Afghanistan.
Under the 2005 constitution the prime minister is the country's active executive authority. Nouri al-Maliki (formerly Jawad al-Maliki) was selected to be prime minister on 21 April 2006. [4] [5] On 14 August 2014, al-Maliki agreed to step down as prime minister of Iraq to allow Haider al-Abadi to take his place. [6]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Friday and met with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to discuss Syria's political transition ...
The leader of Iraq traveled to Michigan on Thursday following a sit-down with President Joe Biden to meet with the state's large Iraqi community and update them on escalating tensions in the ...
On 1 January 2009, the United States handed control of the Green Zone and Saddam Hussein's presidential palace to the Iraqi government in a ceremonial move described by the country's prime minister as a restoration of Iraq's sovereignty. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he would propose 1 January be declared national "Sovereignty Day".