Iraq's president names intelligence chief Mustafa al Kadhimi prime minister-designate
Iraq's President Barham Salih with newly-appointed prime minister-designate Mustafa al Kadhimi in Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2020.
Exhausted by decades of sanctions, war and political corruption, Iraq now faces economic ruin, social unrest and a growing outbreak of the new coronavirus, all of which it must face with only a caretaker cabinet. The former journalist, who wrote against Saddam Hussein from exile in Iran and Britain, returned after the US invasion in 2003. He has held his role heading intelligence since 2016.
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