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...Corruption in Iraq is endemic and has corroded state institutions, sanctioned by a political class that has governed the country since former president Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003....
...Bilal Y Saab, an associate fellow at the Chatham House think-tank in London, said: “Hamas doesn’t have a codified doctrine....
...Hussein and all the associated miscalculations and power plays that ultimately led to a disastrous war....
...This crescendoed in Najaf, a Shia pilgrimage site where a river of women bore us along in their mumbling tide towards the heart of Imam Ali’s shrine....
...I tell you flat out, ‘yes it did’,” Bou Saab said last week....
...Ali Mohsen al-Allaq, the new central bank governor, defended measures introduced to stabilise the monetary crisis that has led to an acute shortage of US dollars and a sharp fall in the dinar....
...He’s been photographed and filmed in sucking up to sort of Saddam Hussein, to Castro. He’s probably the cleverest stupid man in politics....
...Think back to the Arab uprisings of 2011, the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Iranian revolution of 1979. We are overdue a tectonic shift....
...In the 1980s it faced internal battles and fought a devastating eight-year war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq....
...The call was to give them ammunition and organise them under the command of the Somali army,” says Hussein Sheikh-Ali, the national security adviser....
...Australia-Malaysia: Australian foreign minister Penny Wong will visit Malaysia to meet her counterpart Saifuddin Abdullah, defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein and trade and industry minister Azmin Ali....
...The Amiris’ situation is further complicated by the condition of the oldest son, Hussein, who desperately needs specialist medical help for a heart defect....
...Iran was by then in a deadly war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and Syrian president Hafez al-Assad was the only Arab leader to back the Islamic republic....
...In the ruins of his devastated hospital, Ali Omar Tarabi despairs at the violence that has come to the city of Guriel, a once peaceful haven in Somalia. “The fighting, the war has arrived here....
...They joined up with the more than 100,000-strong Popular Mobilisation Forces, blessed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s spiritual leader, as Isis pressed south towards Baghdad and the Shia shrine...
...People of all faiths have endured devastating sectarian violence following the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein....
...The Arab uprisings began there, a decade ago, with the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years in power. The revolutionary spark spread from Tunisia across the region....
...Ali al-Bayati, a member of Iraq’s High Commission for Human Rights, which monitors civilian casualties, said 28 people in the hospital ward were on ventilators....
...The 22 individuals include Ashraf Seed Ahmed Hussein Ali, a Sudanese businessman who has been accused of misappropriating state assets, and Atul, Ajay and Rajesh Gupta, who have been linked to corruption...
...Iran has forged strong security, political and trade ties with its neighbour since the US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003....
...This misconceived war removed the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and sought to reshape the Arab world along democratic lines....
...Counter-terrorism role Iraqi Kurdistan won semi-autonomy from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq thanks to a western-backed no-fly zone imposed in 1991....
...Ali Akram Albayati, a member of the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights, which has monitored and verified attacks on protesters and activists, said that during August alone there had been six attempted...
...“I met Saddam Hussein, Colonel Gaddafi, the royal families of Saudi Arabia, of Norway, of Spain.”...
...Unverified media reports say Mr Azmin could team up with former Umno vice-president Hishammuddin Hussein, the current foreign minister and son of Malaysia’s third prime minister, Hussein Onn....
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