Author: Al Suqanawat

The rules will apply to legal relations that have arisen since February 24 last year. We are talking about the payment of pensions to former military personnel and other security officials who decided to resume service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other military formations during the period of counter-terrorism and other operations outside of Russia or were called up for military service on mobilization. As Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin explained earlier, if military pensioners return to military service in a position with a salary lower than the one from which their pension was calculated,…

Four months since Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani’s government obtained a parliamentary vote of confidence for its brief one-year tenure — which is enough time to explore the government’s orientations and foreign policy priorities — the PM has generated controversy for prioritizing a policy of “openness and striking balances.” These concerns have been raised even though Al-Sudani was selected by Iranian-aligned political coalitions that had hoped to use his government to constrain the policy of compromise and of striking balances (between Iran and its associated proxy actors and Iraqi interests with the Arab world) introduced by his predecessor, Mustafa…

Participants attending the Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership on Tuesday called for stronger support for Iraq to help it maintain security and stability, and achieve comprehensive development. The conference, which was held in the Jordanian town of Sweimeh by the Dead Sea shore, was attended by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani and French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as leaders and officials from Arab states, the United Nations, Arab League, Gulf Cooperation Council, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and European Union. In the conference’s final declaration, participants stressed the need for more support for Iraq in the fields of…