Prime Minister Designate, Adel Abd al-Mahdi is expected to present his cabinet next week. The Iraqi parliament will then approve or reject the cabinet choices that he makes. Currently, Abd al-Mahdi is facing internal sectarian challenges with many parties wanting to continue the ethno-sectarian quota system.
The pollution of the Tigris River in Iraq is threatening the country's Mandaean minority's religious rites. Mandaeans hold the belief that bathing themselves in running water purifies their souls.
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad has raised expectations and hopes for Iraqi minorities, and Yazidis in particular, to prevent suppression against them and to win their rights.
The Iraqi Security Media Center announced that a joint force from al-Jazira Operations Command has launched a security operation in the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province. The force was able to destroy five ISIS tunnels and detonate three ISIS bombs.
The Anbar Compensation Department is facilitating the paperwork of citizens seeking compensation for their homes, which were destroyed by ISIS from 2014-2017.
The Islamic State (ISIS) prevented people living under its rule to visit touristic sites and destroyed many of them. Work to reconstruct these sites in Iraq's Nineveh Province is now under way.
Some of the main leaders killed were Abu Bara’a al-Ansari, Saif al-Din al-Iraqi, Abu Otham al-Talafari, Abu Iman al-Muhaid, and Marwan Hadid al-Suri.
In a high level security operation conducted by the Iraqi Security Forces, 10 ISIS financiers were arrested in Erbil and Baghdad. Despite the continued arrests, ISIS is still finding criminal channels in Iraq and Syria through which to finance its terrorist activities.