The plan also reduced the budget for the personal bodyguards of senior officials and transferred it to the interior and defence ministries.
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An Iraqi parliamentary committee says that former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and other officials were to blame for allowing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to overrun Mosul last year, and has called for them to face trial. He said the report “will document an important and risky phase of the history of modern Iraq“.
“No one is above the law and accountability to the people”, Jaburi said a statement shortly after receiving the report. “The judiciary will punish those who are involved”.
Mr Al Abadi warned last Wednesday that the reform process “will not be easy; it will be painful”, and that corrupt individuals would seek to impede change.
Iraq has its hands full as it continues to fend off attacks from ISIS across the country. Parliament has already given those reforms the OK. The three vice presidencies, one of which was held by a-Maliki, were intended to give equal representation to the country’s Shiite majority and Sunni and Kurdish minorities.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network that Daesh extremists killed 15 women in Ghazlani military base, which lies near the city and is located some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, on Saturday after the victims refused to marry the militants.
Both officers spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
The fall of Fallujah in January 2014 started the Islamic State group’s dramatic blitz across Iraq.
IS seized Ramadi in May, after government forces had held out against militants there for more than a year. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled the province amid continued fighting.
Abadi approved “decisions of the investigative commission on the withdrawal of the Anbar operations command and units attached to it from the city of Ramadi”, his office said in a statement.
Measures will include “referring a number of the leaders to the military judiciary for leaving their positions without orders and contrary to instructions [and] despite the issuance of a number of orders not to withdraw”, a statement from his officer said.
Backed by Shiite and Sunni paramilitary forces, Iraqi government forces last month launched a wide-scale military operation to dislodge militants from Fallujah and other key cities in Anbar province.
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Abadi previously said that forces in Ramadi “had to resist, and if they had resisted, we would not have lost Ramadi”.
