A former Prime Minister and the current chief of the Islamic Dawa party, al-Maliki began his political career opposing former ...

An elite Iraqi security force gunned down more than two dozen mostly unarmed people blocking bridges, in a day of violence that saw at least 35 killed. By Alissa J. Rubin and Falih Hassan Prime ...

1968 - Joins the Islamic Dawa Party. Al Dawa (formally the Hizb al-Dawa al-Islamiyya or the Islamic Call Party), is a Shia Islamist party with close connections with Iran’s clerical regime. 1980 - ...

Ibrahim Jafari, a top leader of the Islamic Dawa Party, was unanimously nominated yesterday as Prime Minister of Iraq. Confirmation by the National Assembly is expected. The selection of Jafari, a ...

US President Donald Trump has warned Iraq over reinstatement of Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister, saying that the country ...

BAGHDAD, Feb. 17 -- As elections officials certified his Shiite Muslim coalition's majority in Iraq's new National Assembly on Thursday, the leading candidate for prime minister said he was preparing ...

Other Facts:Al Dawa (formally the Hizb al-Dawa al-Islamiyya or the Islamic Call Party), is a Shia Islamist party with close connections with Iran's clerical regime. Included Sunni Arab leaders in his ...