April 12th, 2026 - 07:57 GMT
ALBAWABA- Iraq’s parliament elected Nizar Mohammed Saeed Amidi as president on Saturday, ending a five-month political stalemate following the November 2025 elections. Amidi secured 227 votes in the second round of parliamentary voting, with 249 lawmakers present, defeating his rival Muthanna Amin of the Kurdistan Islamic Union, who received 15 votes. He had previously led the first round with 208 votes but fell short of the two-thirds majority required. A ...
![Iyad Allawi asked Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to stop targeting Arab tribes in Anbar. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/Iyad-Allawi-006.jpg?itok=UW7alPRZ "Iyad Allawi asked Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to stop targeting Arab tribes in Anbar. [AFP]")
![An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6281893.jpg?itok=IENNaC4V "An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]")
