Prominent Iraqi publisher and former presidential aide Fakhri Karim survived an assassination attempt in Baghdad on Thursday after gunmen intercepted his vehicle and shot it with eleven bullets. Karim was on his way home after visiting the Iraq International Book Fair in Baghdad that is being sponsored by the Al Mada Foundation for Media, Culture and Art, which he founded in the 1990s.
A number of leaders of the Coordination Framework, the bloc leading the new Iraqi government, are pushing to increase the value of the dinar in an attempt to support the poor yet some argue the measure could backfire.
Prominent Iraqi leader Moqtada Al-Sadr yesterday called to keep the Popular Mobilisation Forces and the Peace Brigades, the military wing of his Sadrist movement, away from any security work during th.
Prominent Iraqi cleric and seasoned politician Muqtada al-Sadr has given the country's apex court a one-week ultimatum to dissolve the parliament amid a deepening post-election political crisis gripping the country.