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...He has begun publicly purging acolytes of the former prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi....
...But Mustafa Badreddine had a very, very long career....
...Amid the political paralysis, Iraq is being steered by caretaker prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who will stay on if Sadr and his rivals cannot come to an agreement to form a new government....
...Amid the paralysis, Iraq is being steered by caretaker prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi....
...Sadr’s victory may increase the chances of prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi serving a second term....
...The weekend’s triple-drone attack on the home of Mustafa al-Kadhimi, the prime minister of Iraq, does take the breath away....
...But the current prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, has struggled to bring these private armies under state control....
...French president Emmanuel Macron, who backed Iraqi prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s efforts to host the conference, was also present....
...While Sadr did not take a government position in 2018, his influence increased under Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who relied on Sadr to balance the power of more pro-Iran lawmakers, some of whom are...
...Shia militias flourished in the chaos following the US-led ousting of Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein....
...Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has called for an investigation into the incident to be completed in five days and has suspended the health minister, Baghdad governor and director of health for Al Rusafa...
...The process is being facilitated by Iraqi prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who held talks with Prince Mohammed in Riyadh last month....
...As the new government under intelligence chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi signalled resolve to tame the militias, Hashemi’s death was meant to project their power....
...The demonstrations initially raised hopes after the then prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned and was eventually replaced by caretaker premier Mustafa al-Kadhimi, a political neophyte who promised to...
...That was defeated but its residue fused with former Saddam Hussein loyalists into Isis, the jihadi blackshirts who took a third of the country in 2014....
...The killings threaten to undermine new Iraqi prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who has pledged to rein in militias acting outside state control and to protect protesters who have been demanding reforms...
...But Hussein Allawi, an adviser to Iraq’s counter-terrorism service, said foreign military support remained critical....
...More intriguing is Iraq, where Mustafa al-Kadhimi, the pragmatic new prime minister favoured by the US, has just taken office after a long hiatus without a government....
...Abu Mustafa al-Imami, deputy head of a Turkmen PMF unit, says the visit was normal, given Iraq’s army operations against Isis in Hawija....
...His father, the nationalist hero Mustafa Barzani, was the republic’s military commander during its one-year existence, and Masoud was born there....
...Tikrit is the home region of Saddam Hussein, the former president toppled in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq....
...“We accepted federalism as the way to foster partnership and a share in the country,” says Falah Mustafa Bakir, the KRG’s foreign minister, “but we don’t have either”....
...Malaysia’s defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein, who is accompanying Mr Najib to China, announced the purchase of Chinese naval patrol craft in a Facebook post which was later taken down....
...Instead, Badreddine escaped from prison during Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of the Gulf country....
...We have cabinet ministers who barely finished high school,” says Mustafa Hamed, Mr Dhafer’s jobless friend....
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