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Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki ( ; born June 20, 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki or Abu Esraa, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will not run for a third term in 2014, an adviser said Saturday, limiting himself in the name of democracy and with an eye on the popular anger directed at governments across the Middle East.
Al-Maliki narrowly held on to a second four-year term after his political bloc fell two seats short of its main rival in national elections last year. He will step down at a fragile time in Iraq's history — his successor will be the first Iraqi leader to run the nation without U.S. military help since Saddam Hussein.Al-Maliki adviser Ali al-Moussawi said the premier also wants to change the Iraqi constitution before he leaves to limit all future prime ministers to two terms."Eight years is enough for him, in order to not convert to a dictatorship," al-Moussawi told The Associated Press, as state TV announced al-Maliki's decision. "This is the principle and the concept of democracy."Saturday's stunning announcement follows al-Maliki's decision a day earlier to return h...A bodyguard for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that he was paid $3,000 to assassinate a government security official in one of hundreds of death sq...
Former bodyguards for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically ch...
Iraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after allegations that detainees were tortured a...
Poetry has returned to the Triangle of Death. But dancing and singing are being left behind.In this dusty southern community, home to the renowned archaeological sit...
Each September, like clockwork, a bestiary of the world's worst rogues and criminal heads of state arrive at the U.N. building on First Avenue to join in the organiz...
On Wednesday, Democrats and Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved harsher penalties against Iran , citing the regime's plot to assa...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki submitted his new Cabinet on Monday, clearing a hurdle to seating a government more than nine months after national elections ev...
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff is meeting in Iraq with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.Adm. Mike Mullen will later tour U.S. military installations to...
Iraqi lawmakers have approved an agreement that brings all of Iraq's feuding political blocs into a new government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.The vote Sat...
The president of Iraq's self-rule Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that Shiite leaders agree on sharing power with their political opponents by September or else th...
The president of Iraq's self-rule Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that Shiite leaders agree on sharing power with their political opponents by September or else th...
Leaders from nearly all of Iraq's top political blocs called Saturday for a solution to a crisis pitting the Shiite-led government against Sunnis and Kurds, saying t...
Iraqi state TV: President asks Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to form new government.
Iraqi lawmakers approve incumbent Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a second term.
Bombs exploded at a crowded Baghdad restaurant and a near police patrol Thursday, among attacks that killed at least 18 people and wounded 53 in Iraq's bloodiest day...
Lawyers for Iraq's fugitive vice president on Thursday asked judges in his terror trial to summon the nation's president as a defense witness.The three-judge panel i...
RISE TO POWER: The 60-year-old former schoolteacher with a master's degree in Arabic literature rose from obscurity in 2006 to become a compromise candidate for prim...
Iraq's president on Saturday urged the nation's bickering factions to resolve the bitter political dispute that has gripped the government for nearly six months, war...
The bodyguard for Iraq's fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that he was paid $3,000 to assassinate a government security official in one of hundreds of death ...
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