Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
, and promised him Russia would send Badhdad an emergency shipment of military aid to assist the government in its fight against the Islamist insurgency led by the ISIS.
"The shipment is expected to arrive in upcoming days and will include military helicopters, armed-personnel carriers, munitions and light and heavy arms," the source was quoted as saying by the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese paper Al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
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