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The Iraqi presidential election of 2022 was held on 13 October 2022 to elect by indirect suffrage the President of Iraq for a four-year term. The position is largely ceremonial, with Iraq being a parliamentary system. Outgoing President Barham Salih was eligible for re-election, but was beaten in the second round by Abdul Latif Rashid. [1]
Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq — 12 May 2003 28 June 2004 1 year, 47 days Republican: → • Republic of Iraq (2004–present) • → — Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer غازي مشعل عجيل الياور (born 1958) Interim President: 2004: 28 June 2004 7 April 2005 283 days The Iraqis: 6 Jalal Talabani ...
And on 27 October 2022, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, close ally of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, took the office to succeed Mustafa al-Kadhimi as new Prime Minister of Iraq. [48] In July 2023, vast swathes of southern and western Iraq were left without electricity after a fire broke out causing an explosion at a power station south of ...
21 January: 2022 Diyala massacre, eleven soldiers killed in their barracks by Daeshis in Al-Azim. [1] 22 January: January 2022 Hatra airstrike, 3 top Daeshi leaders in airstrikes. [2] 8 February: Seven Daeshi leaders killed in airstrikes. [3] 13 March: 2022 Erbil missile attacks, three killed, seven injured in missile strikes by the IRGC. [4]
The president of the Republic of Iraq [a] is the head of state of Iraq. Since the mid-2000s, the presidency is primarily a symbolic office, as the position does not possess significant power within the country according to the constitution adopted in October 2005.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York on Monday and received an invitation from U.S. President Joe Biden to ...
Iraq hosts several Iran-aligned parties and armed groups, as Tehran has steadily increased its sway in the major oil producer since a U.S.-led invasion toppled its enemy Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Between the parliamentary election in October 2021 and October 2022, there was a political crisis in Iraq, with members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq being unable to form a stable coalition government, or elect a new President. [5]