Mustafa Al-Kadhimi

Al-Kadhimi was born in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad; the Arabic article and Wikidata give his birth as 5 July 1967, while the English article gives 1964, with its lead and infobox differing on the day, a reading that rests on a single cited piece. His father Abdul Latif, from al-Shatrah in the south, worked as a technical supervisor at Baghdad airport. An opponent of Saddam Hussein's regime, al-Kadhimi left Iraq in 1985 and lived in Iran and Germany before settling in the United Kingdom, where he worked as a journalist and human rights activist. ^{1 2}

After 2003 al-Kadhimi co-founded the Iraqi Media Network and directed the Iraq Memory Foundation, which documented the Ba'athist regime's crimes, from 2003 to 2010. He edited Newsweek Iraq (2010–2013) and wrote for the Iraqi edition of Al-Monitor, and took a law degree from Al-Turath University in 2012. In June 2016 he became director of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, which he reformed and led through the fight against the Islamic State; under his leadership the service captured the Islamic State finance chief Sami Jasim al-Jaburi in October 2021. He also acted as foreign minister for some weeks in 2020. ¹

After the 2019 protest movement forced Adel Abdul Mahdi's resignation, President Barham Salih named al-Kadhimi prime minister-designate on 9 April 2020, the third designate in ten weeks; parliament confirmed him on 6 May and he took office on 7 May 2020. He promised a 'solutions government', called early elections, mediated between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and declared 6 March — the day of Pope Francis's interreligious meeting at Ur — a National Day of Tolerance and Coexistence. Kata'ib Hezbollah accused him of complicity in the killing of Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, which he denied. In the early hours of 7 November 2021 he survived an explosive-drone attack on his Green Zone residence. His term ended on 27 October 2022, when Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani succeeded him; the succession edge is written in al-Sudani's record. After two years abroad he returned to Baghdad in February 2025. ^{1 2}

His faith is recorded as unknown. No article text names his affiliation; Wikidata gives Islam in general and no school, and the Arabic article's 'Iraqi Shia' category is a filing. The piece the English article cites for his birth data asks in its headline whether he is Sunni or Shia, but the article itself adopts no answer. ^{1 2 3}

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