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Faiq Zaidan
Faiq Zaidan (; born March 9, 1967) is an Iraqi judge and professor who has been the President of the Federal Court of Cassation since 2016. He assumed the position of President of the Supreme Judicial Council in 2017. During his tenure, he has established strong bilateral relations with the judiciaries of the United Kingdom, the UAE, France, Spain and others. Early life and education Faiq Zaidan Khalaf Sheikh Farhan al-Aboudi was born on March 9, 1967, in Baghdad, originally from Al-Shatrah District in Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq. He is married and has 6 children, three of whom are girls. Faiq Zaidan graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Baghdad in 1991, then worked as a Lawyer for six years. Following two years of studying Judicial Sciences, at the in Baghdad, Zaidan graduated with a Higher Diploma and became a Judge in 1999. He started his career as a Judge at the Civil and Criminal Courts in Baghdad, Iraq. In 2017, he graduated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baghdad
Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the Arab world, most populous cities in the Middle East and Arab world and forms 22% of the Demographics of Iraq, country's population. Spanning an area of approximately , Baghdad is the capital of its Baghdad Governorate, governorate and serves as Iraq's political, economic, and cultural hub. Founded in 762 AD by Al-Mansur, Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and became its most notable development project. The city evolved into a cultural and intellectual center of the Muslim world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions, including the House of Wisdom, as well as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious environment, garnered it a worldwide reputation as the "Center of Learning". For much of the Abbasid era, duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American University Of Iraq - Baghdad
The American University of Iraq – Baghdad (AUIB) is a private, not-for-profit university established in 2018. It started its teaching activities in February 2021 in three colleges: Arts & Sciences, International Studies, and Business. The campus has grown quickly with the addition of four more colleges (Pharmacy, Dentistry, Health Technologies, and Law). History The university opened in February 2021. It models itself on other regional American-style liberal arts universities such as the American University of Beirut and the American University of Cairo. In 2017, after deciding the location, the United States Ambassador to Iraq signed an agreement that would pave the way for the university. Its inaugural class in 2021 comprised approximately three hundred undergraduates. Most of this cohort took English language skills courses at the university's English Language Academy before embarking on their baccalaureate programs. Campus The university's campus is located in what was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurdish American Caucus
Established on May 23, 2008 by US Congressmen Lincoln Davis (D-Tennessee) and Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), the Kurdish American Congressional Caucus is a bipartisan Congressional committee focusing on US-Kurdish relations, understanding Kurdish culture, and addressing overarching issues important to Kurdish-Americans in the U.S. and elsewhere. The KACC pays special recognition to Kurds in the U.S. and the diaspora, their contributions to the United States and in Iraq, highlighting the necessity to promote their rights as an ethnic minority. At the launch of the Kurdish American Caucus, Rep. Davis stated that he “... hopes that this ACCwill stand as a symbol of continued friendship and cooperation between the United States and Iraq's Kurdish people in our effort to bring peace and stability to a federated Iraq.” In February 2012, Rep. Jared Polis accepted the Democratic co-chair position to lead the caucus. He joined the Republican co-chair Rep. Joe Wilson. The Kurdish pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Iraq)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq is a Federal government of Iraq, central government ministry of Iraq, responsible for formulating foreign policy and conducting Foreign relations of Iraq, foreign relations of the country. Organisation Iraq maintains 86 Diplomatic missions worldwide. List of ministers The following is a list of foreign ministers of Iraq since 1924: Kingdom of Iraq (1921–1958) *1924–1930: the List of Prime Ministers of Iraq, prime ministers *1930–1931: Abdullah Al Damluji, Abdullah Bey al-Damluji *1931–1932: Ja'far al-Askari *1932–1933: Abdul Qadir Rashid *1933–1934: Nuri al-Said *1934: Abdullah Bey al-Damluji *1934: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1934–1936: Nuri al-Said *1936–1937: Naji al-Asil *1937–1938: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1938–1939: Nuri al-Said *1939–1940: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi *1940–1941: Nuri al-Said *1941: Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh *1941: Taha al-Hashimi *1941: Tawfiq al-Suwaidi *1941: Musa al-Shabandar *1941: Ali Jawdat Al-Ayyubi * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in Microblogging, short posts commonly known as "Tweet (social media), tweets" (officially "posts") and Like button, like other users' content. The platform also includes direct message, direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok (chatbot), Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Waltz
Michael George Glen Waltz (born January 31, 1974) is an American politician, businessman, author, and former United States Army Special Forces, Army Special Forces officer who is President Donald Trump's current nominee for United States ambassador to the United Nations. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he previously served as the 29th National Security Advisor (United States), national security advisor from January to May 2025 and was the U.S. representative for Florida's 6th congressional district from 2019 to 2025. He was the first Army Special Forces soldier to be elected to United States Congress, Congress. Waltz received four Bronze Stars while serving in the United States Army Special Forces, Special Forces during multiple combat tours in War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Africa. He served in the Presidency of George W. Bush, Bush administration as a defense policy director in the Pentagon and as counterte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Romanowski
Alina L. Romanowski (born September 26, 1955) is an American career diplomat who had served as the List of ambassadors of the United States to Iraq, United States Ambassador to Iraq from June 2022 to December 2024. She previously served as the List of ambassadors of the United States to Kuwait, United States Ambassador to Kuwait from February 2020 to April 2022. Early life and education Alina Romanowski is from Illinois. Her father Thomas A. Romanowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland and in 1946 immigrated to the U.S. He was a professor of high-energy physics. Her mother, Carmen M. Romanowski, emigrated from Canada and was a French language teacher. Alina Romanowski earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago. She also attended Tel Aviv University in Israel. Career While she was a student at the University of Chicago, Romanowski interviewed on campus with the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA and began a career in the U.S. government. Romanowski has spent fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Dupond-Moretti
Éric Dupond-Moretti (; born 20 April 1961) is a French-Italian lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Justice (France), Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2024 in the successive governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex, Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal. As a criminal defence lawyer, he is renowned for his number of acquittals which earned him the nickname "Acquitator", some of the controversial figures he defended, as well as his outspoken personality. During his tenure as Justice Minister, he was one of the most prominent members of the government. His appointment came as a surprise to many political commentators. Early life Dupond-Moretti is the only son of Jean-Pierre Dupond, a metal worker from Arrondissement of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Avesnois and Elena Moretti, a housekeeper from Italy. His paternal grandparents, Achille and Louise, were also workers. Fatherless at the age of four, his mother raised him alone. Like many famous fatherless criminal lawyers in France, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly (France)
The National Assembly (, ) is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral French Parliament under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (France), Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known as () or deputies. There are 577 , each elected by a single-member Constituencies of the National Assembly of France, constituency (at least one per Departments of France, department) through a two-round system; thus, 289 seats are required for a majority. The List of presidents of the National Assembly of France, president of the National Assembly, currently Yaël Braun-Pivet, presides over the body. The officeholder is usually a member of the largest party represented, assisted by vice presidents from across the represented political spectrum. The National Assembly's term is five years; however, the president of France may dissolve the assembly, thereby calling for early elections, unless it has been dissolved in the preceding twelve m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muqtada Al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr (; born 4 August 1974) is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric, politician and militia leader. He inherited the leadership of the Sadrist Movement from his father, and founded the now dissolved Mahdi Army militia in 2003 that resisted the American occupation of Iraq. He also founded the Promised Day Brigade insurgent group after the dissolution of the Mahdi Army; both were backed by Iran. In 2014, he founded the Peace Companies militia and serves as its current head. In 2018, he joined his Sadrist political party to the Saairun alliance, which won the highest number of seats in the 2018 and 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections. Titles He belongs to the prominent al-Sadr family that hails from Jabal Amel in Lebanon, before later settling in Najaf. Sadr is the son of Muhammad al-Sadr, an Iraqi religious figure and politician who stood against Saddam Hussein, and the nephew of Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr. He is often styled with the honorific title ''Sayyid''. His fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esmail Qaani
Esmail Qaani (also rendered as Ismail Qaani; ; 8 August 1957) is an Iranian brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who serves as the commander of the IRGC Quds Force, an elite special operations force responsible for extraterritorial operations. Qaani succeeded Qasem Soleimani as Quds Force commander after Soleimani was assassinated in January 2020. ''The New York Times'' reported that Israel Defense Forces airstrikes killed Qaani on 13 June 2025 during Israel's initial attacks against Iran in the Iran–Israel war, yet he was seen alive during the ceasefire celebrations in Tehran. Early life Qaani was born in Mashhad, a pilgrimage city and the second most populous in Iran. He joined the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in 1980. Military career During the Iran–Iraq War, Qaani led the 5th Nasr Brigade and 21st Imam Reza Armored Brigade. In 1981, he received his military training in Imam Ali Officers' Academy in Tehran. The war was w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouri Al-Maliki
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki (; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is an Iraqi politician and leader of the Islamic Dawa Party since 2007. He served as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and as Vice President of Iraq, Vice President from 2014 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2018. Al-Maliki began his political career as a Shia Islam in Iraq, Shia dissident opposed to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the late 1970s, and rose to prominence after he fled a death sentence and went into exile for 24 years. During his time abroad, he became a senior leader of the Islamic Dawa Party, coordinated the activities of anti-Saddam guerrillas, and built relationships with officials from Iran and Syria, seeking their help in overthrowing Saddam's government. Both during and after the Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), American-led occupation of Iraq (2003–2011), al-Maliki worked closely with the Multi-National Force – Iraq, Multi-National Force (MN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
