Iraq’s parliament voted Saturday to elect Nizar Amidi, a political official with one of the country’s two main Kurdish ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament elected Nizar Amidi as the country’s new president on Saturday, after he secured a decisive victory in a second round of voting. Amidi, the candidate of the Patriotic Union ...

Guards prepare for the arrival of Parliament members at the parliament building hall to elect the President of the Republic, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April11, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s parliament voted Saturday to elect Nizar Amidi, a political official with one of the country’s two main Kurdish parties, as president, five months after a parliamentary election ...