Council of Ministers (Iraq)

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Council of Ministers
مجلس الوزراء ئەنجومەنی وەزیران

Overview
Established	28 December 2005
State	Republic of Iraq
Leader	Prime Minister of Iraq
Appointed by	President of Iraq
Ministries	23
Responsible to	Council of Representatives
Headquarters	Baghdad, Iraq
Website	www.gds.gov.iq

Politics of Iraq


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Elections Political parties Electoral Commission Recent elections Parliamentary: 2018 2021 next Gubernatorial: 2009 2013 next 2005 constitutional referendum
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The Council of Ministers (Arabic: مجلس الوزراء; Kurdish: ئەنجومەنی وەزیران) is the principal executive organ of the Federal Government of the Republic of Iraq

The Council of Representatives of Iraq elects a President of the Republic who appoints the Prime Minister who in turn appoints the Council of Ministers, all of whom must be approved by the Assembly.

Current composition[edit]

Office	Name		In office since
Prime Minister	Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani	Independent	28 October 2022
Interior Minister	Abdul Amir Al Shammari	Independent	28 October 2022
Finance Minister	Taif Sami Mohammed	Independent	28 October 2022
Foreign Affairs Minister	Fuad Hussein	Kurdistan Democratic Party	28 October 2022
Defense Minister	Thabet Muhammad Saeed al-Absi	Azem Alliance	28 October 2022
Oil Minister	Hayan Abdul Ghani Abdul-Zahra	State of Law Coalition	28 October 2022
Agriculture Minister	Abbas Jabr Obada	State of Law Coalition	28 October 2022
Communications Minister	Hiam Abboud Kazem	Fatah Alliance	28 October 2022
Culture Minister	Ahmad Fakkak Ahmad	Progress Party	28 October 2022
Housing & Reconstruction Minister	Bangen Rekani	Kurdistan Democratic Party	28 October 2022
Electricity Minister	Ziyad Ali Fadhil	Islamic Virtue Party	28 October 2022
Education Minister	Ibrahim Namis Yassin	Azem Alliance	28 October 2022
Justice Minister	Khaled Shwani	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	28 October 2022
Health Minister	Saleh Mahdi Mutalib	Independent	28 October 2022
Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister	Naim Abdul Aboudi	Fatah Alliance	28 October 2022
Industry and Minerals Minister	Khalid Najim	Azem Alliance	28 October 2022
Environment Minister	Nizar Mohammed Saeed Amidi	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	28 October 2022
Labour & Social Affairs Minister	Ahmed Jassem Saber Al-Asadi	Fatah Alliance	28 October 2022
Migration and Displacement Minister	Evan Faeq Yakoob	Babylon Movement	28 October 2022
Planning Minister	Muhammad Ali Tamim	Progress Party	28 October 2022
Trade Minister	Atheer Daoud Salman	Azem Alliance	28 October 2022
Transport Minister	Razak Muhaibis	Fatah Alliance	28 October 2022
Water Resources Minister	Aoun Diab Abdullah	Independent	28 October 2022
Youth and Sports Minister	Ahmed Muhammad Hussein Al-Mubarqa	State of Law Coalition	28 October 2022

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Official website (in Arabic)

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History

Chronology	Ubaid period Hassuna culture Halaf culture Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period Samarra culture Uruk period Jemdet Nasr period Sumer Subartu Akkadian Empire Gutian dynasty Neo-Sumerian Empire Isin-Larsa period First Babylonian Empire Old Assyrian Period Middle Assyrian Empire Kassite dynasty of the Babylonian Empire Simurrum culture Babylonia Assyria Neo-Assyrian Empire Neo-Babylonian Empire Fall of Babylon Achaemenid Assyria Seleucid Babylonia Parthian Babylonia Sassanid Asorestan
638–1958	Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia Umayyad Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate Buyid dynasty Qara Qoyunlu Aq Qoyunlu Safavids Ottoman Iraq (incl. Mamluk dynasty) Mandate for Mesopotamia Mandatory Iraq Kingdom of Iraq Kings Arab Federation
Republic	1958–1968 1968–2003 2003–2011 2011–present Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region (National Command) Saddam Hussein Iraqi–Kurdish conflict 1974–1975 Shatt al-Arab clashes 1977 Shia uprising in Iraq 1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq Weapons of mass destruction Iran–Iraq War Operation Opera Invasion of Kuwait Gulf War 1991 uprisings Sanctions Iraq War U.S. invasion Iraqi insurgency U.S. troop withdrawal Insurgency (2011–2013) War (2014–2017) Fall of Mosul Mosul liberation Insurgency 2019–2021 protests 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis

Geography
Faw peninsula Upper Mesopotamia Lower Mesopotamia Borders Euphrates river Hamrin Mountains Iraqi Kurdistan Lakes Islands Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Marshes Persian Gulf Places Shatt al-Arab Syrian Desert Tigris river Umm Qasr Zagros Mountains Wildlife Sinjar Mountains

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Current composition[edit]

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