Iraq: Security threats, rivals weigh on Abadi, but momentum is building on battlefront


Issue 1019 - 15 Jul 2016 | 5 minute read

Interior minister Mohammed Salem Al-Ghabban resigned on 5 July following a suicide car bombing in Baghdad that killed more than 250 people. His resignation was approved by prime minister Haider Al-Abadi, who promoted a deputy minister to take over the Ministry of Interior (MoI). Abadi subsequently relieved Lieutenant General Abdulamir Al-Shimmari of his position as Operations Commander in Baghdad, along with the heads of the capital’s intelligence and security departments.

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