Haider al-Abadi

Calm returns to Basra after week of violent protests
Security reinforcements sent from Baghdad have stabilised the city after weeks-long protests turned violent last week.
Published On 9 Sep 2018
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Iraq PM asked to resign amid Basra unrest
The oil-rich southern city remains on edge, with 12 deaths since Tuesday and burning of Iran consulate.
Published On 8 Sep 2018
Iraq vows ‘severe’ response after attack on Iran consulate
Haider al-Abadi orders security forces to ‘act decisively’ after protesters set fire to Iranian consulate in Basra.
Published On 8 Sep 2018
Deadly Basra clashes as government office torched
Six killed and a dozen wounded as demonstrations escalate over abysmal government services in the southern province.
Published On 4 Sep 2018

Sadr-Abadi alliance claims it has majority of seats, which is contested by ex-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s bloc.

Iraqi lawmakers are seen before opening session of the new Iraqi parliament in Baghdad

Sadr-backed Sairoon and Abadi’s Nasr agreed to form ‘a core for an alliance’ together with Hikma and Wataniyah blocs.

Many Iraqis, including those from the Kurdish and Sunni Arab communities, had complained of electoral misconduct.

FILE PHOTO: Ballot boxes are seen after a fire at a storage site in Baghdad, housing the boxes from Iraq''s May parliamentary election

Baghdad to honour dollar ban but not all US sanctions on Iran, says Haider al-Abadi, stepping back from earlier remarks.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who''s political bloc came third in a May parliamentary election, meets with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who''s bloc came first, in Najaf

Abadi says anyone who tried to sabotage the political process in the country will be punished.

FILE PHOTO: Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi attends the election campaign, along with his supporters in Kirkuk

Three of the suspects are policemen and the fourth is an employee of the Independent High Elections Commission.

Ballot boxes are seen after a fire at a storage site in Baghdad, housing the boxes from Iraq''s May parliamentary election

Citing ‘dangerous violations,’ authorities cancel ballots of overseas and displaced voters in last month’s election.

Elections commission says a probe has been launched with ‘a view to holding violators accountable’.

A man walks past a campaign poster of Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi ahead of the parliamentary election, in Najaf

The incumbent prime minister did not win the majority he was expecting to in Iraq’s election, trailing behind Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Alliance and Hadi al-Amiri’s Fatah.

Iraqi politicians set themselves away from sectarian rhetoric in the run-up to country’s general elections in May.

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