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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....
...Sixteen years on from the fall of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, Iraqis are once again facing state crackdown on dissent — this time from their democratically elected government....
...Binaa’s bloc is mostly made up of the Fatah party led by militia leader turned politician Hadi al-Ameri, who is close to Tehran....
...Iran and Iraq have forged close ties in the years since the dictator Saddam Hussein was ousted in the 2003 US-led invasion....
...Iraqi leaders could not face the prospect of a new war after years of conflict long predating the 2003 US invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein....
...The Iran-linked Fatah electoral list of Hadi al-Ameri came second....
...The boom of a rocket-propelled grenade stopped Hadi al-Ameri mid-sentence as he recounted an offensive he led against Isis in Anbar province, for years a hotbed of Sunni militancy....
...Adel Abdul-Mahdi, the prime minister designate, and Barham Salih, the new president, are respected veterans of post-Saddam Hussein politics. Mr Adbul-Mahdi has 30 days to pick a cabinet....
...Hadi al-Ameri, a veteran paramilitary leader-cum-politician who led the PMU into battle, bristles at such suggestions. “We [do] not accept this....
...Mr Abadi’s main challenge could come from a pro-Iranian alliance led by Hadi al-Ameri, who is expected to be a key powerbroker in the formation of the next government....
...It was assumed that Hadi al-Amiri, leader of the Iran-backed Shia paramilitary coalition, the Popular Mobilisation Forces, that first braked the Isis onslaught after Iraq’s army melted away, would share...
...He spent two decades fighting Saddam Hussein from Iran....
...The Fatah, or Conquest list, which is considered pro-Iran and led by Hadi al-Ameri, a former paramilitary leader, was running second....
...Both Mr Maliki, and Hadi al-Ameri, a former paramilitary leader who heads Fatah, are deemed to be more staunchly pro-Iranian than the prime minister....
...But analysts expect Fatah, or Conquest, a new political bloc built on the success of Shia-dominated paramilitary forces in the fight against Isis and led by Hadi al-Ameri, who is close to Iran, to come second...
...After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 toppled the tyrannical minority rule of Saddam Hussein, Mr Sadr, young scion of an illustrious Shia dynasty, launched insurrections against, and became a pantomime...
...The group is led by Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the brother of late founder Hussein al-Houthi who was killed by the government in 2004....
...Success story The birthplace of Saddam Hussein and the capital of Salahuddin province, Tikrit was among the first cities to fall to Isis in its whirlwind offensive in summer 2014, and one of the first to...
...Before the US occupation of Iraq in 2003, Mr Amiri’s Badr force was based in Iran and fought Saddam Hussein....
...asked Hussein al-Bokhaiti, a pro-Houthi activist based in Sana’a with close ties to the movement’s leadership....
...The unilateral declaration will deepen the Houthis’ mistrust of the Saudis, according to Hussein al-Bokhaiti, a Sana’a-based pro-Houthi activist with close ties to the movement’s leadership....
...“With the Mukalla attack, the whole word knows that al-Qaeda has the upper hand in the south — not Hadi,” said Hussein al-Bokhaiti, a pro-Houthi activist....
...The militants’ storming of Saddam Hussein’s home city signalled the devastating sweep of the jihadist group....
...Food prices are getting up to 60 per cent higher in Sana’a,” said Hussein al-Bukhaiti, who has close ties with Houthi forces. “It is just going to get worse if we don’t get food in.”...
...The Houthis, with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, have expanded their control from the capital into the south, unseating the president, Abd-Rabbu Hadi, who has fled to Riyadh....
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