BAGHDAD: Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government on Thursday ending over a year of deadlock, but still faces many challenges.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani,52, who previously served as Iraq’s human rights minister as well as minister of labor and social affairs, will head the new government.
Sundai’s picks for 21 ministries passed during a parliament vote on the Cabinet. He named the head of state-run South Gas Co. (SGC) Hayan Abdul Ghani as oil minister.
Thursday’s parliament session comes a year after an election in which populist Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr was the biggest winner but failed to rally support to form a government.
Sadr withdrew his 73 lawmakers in August and said he would quit politics, prompting the worst violence in Baghdad for years when his loyalists stormed a government palace and fought rival Shiite groups, most of them backed by Iran and with armed wings.
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Iraqi parliament approves new government headed by Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani
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Iraqi parliament approves new government headed by Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani
- Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani,52, will head the new government
- Sundai’s picks for 21 ministries passed during a parliament vote on the Cabinet
Trump says Gaza stabilization force is already running
- “More and more countries are coming into it. They’re already in but they’ll send any number of troops that I ask them to send”
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday said the International Stabilization Force for Gaza is already running and that more countries would be added.
“I think that, in a form, it’s already running,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “More and more countries are coming into it. They’re already in but they’ll send any number of troops that I ask them to send.”
Trump said his administration was looking into whether Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire by killing a Hamas leader on Saturday.
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