Rowsch Nuri Shaways ( Kurdish: ڕۆژ نووری شاوەیس,

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: روز نوري شاويس) (15 – 1947 February 2021KDP’ Rowsch Shaways dies today
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. After the invasion of

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that overthrew the

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

regime, he served as one of Iraq's two

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in the

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established in 2004. Subsequently, he was a Deputy Prime Minister in the government headed by

Ibrahim al-Jaafari Ibrahim Abd al-Karim al-Eshaiker ( ar, إبراهيم عبد الكريم الأشيقر; born 25 March 1947), also known as Ibrahim al-Jaafari, is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 200 ...

and later held the same post under

Nouri al-Maliki Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki ( ar, نوري المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice presiden ...

. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister under

Haider Al-Abadi Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi ( ar, حيدر جواد كاظم العبادي; born 25 April 1952) is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from September 2014 until October 2018. Previously he served as Minister of Communication fro ...

from 8 September 2014 to 9 August 2015. Previously, he served as speaker of the

Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly The Parliament of Kurdistan ( ku, پەرلەمانی كوردستان ,Perlemanê Kurdistanê or simply Perleman, ar, برلمان كردستان, links=https://www.parliament.krd/arabic/), also called the Kurdish Parliament (IKP), is the parl ...

in the Kurdish autonomous region and was a member of the

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Family and education

His father, Nuri Siddik Shaways, was one of the first Kurdish cabinet ministers in Iraq after the

Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970 Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970 (or the Iraqi–Kurdish peace talks or the 1970 Peace Accord) was an agreement, which the Iraqi government and the Kurds reached March 11, 1970, in the aftermath of the First Iraqi–Kurdish War, for the ...

. His mother Nahida Sheikhsalam served as the first woman Member of Parliament. He was the eldest of eight brothers. Dr. Shaways earned a doctorate in engineering in Germany and returned to Iraq in 1975 to join the Kurdish resistance to

, where he helped lead the Peshmerga forces in many key battles alongside

Masoud Barzani Masoud Barzani ( ku, ,مه‌سعوود بارزانی, translit=Mesûd Barzanî}; born 16 August 1946) is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of ...

References

External links

CBS News profile

1947 births 2021 deaths Vice presidents of Iraq Kurdistan Democratic Party politicians Government ministers of Iraq Prime Ministers of Kurdistan Region Speakers of the Kurdistan Region Parliament University of Mosul alumni Date of birth missing Place of death missing People from Sulaymaniyah {{Iraq-politician-stub