By John Lee. Iraq's Council of Representatives has opened its first session of the sixth parliamentary term, electing Haibat [Haybat] al-Halbousi as Speaker and Adnan Fayhan as First Deputy Speaker. According to Al Jazeera, al-Halbousi is from the Taqaddum (Progress) Party. The session was chaired by Amer al-Fayez, the oldest serving MP, and attended by […]
By Michael Knights, Hamdi Malik and Crispin Smith, for the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq's New Regime Change: How Tehran-Backed Terrorist Organizations and Militias Captured the Iraqi State A comprehensive study of the […]
By John Lee. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Mission Director Alonzo Wind joined the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers Secretariat, Dr. Ali Al-Allaq, in opening the Third National Conference on Excellence in Services at the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad on March 24. The two-day conference provided an opportunity to recognize […]
