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Former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remains a powerful and unyielding figure, both within and beyond the Framework. Together with the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, they remain the ...

The Islamic Dawa Party, led by former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki — one of the most influential figures in Iraq’s ruling coalition — called on the government in a statement to “ensure ...