Haider Jawad Kadhim Al-Abadi is the 75th Prime Minister of Iraq and one of the senior politicians of the country. He succeeded Nouri al-Maliki after being nominated by President Faud Masum as the next Prime Minister and getting approval by the government of Iraq. Initially the then incumbent Prime Minister Nouri Maliki was not in favour of Haider al-Abadi being given the position by the Shia State of Law parliamentary coalition as their Prime Ministerial candidate, he later accepted the move. Haider al-Abadi came back to Iraq from exile in 2003 and thereafter held many important positions post the Saddam Hussein government. The first government post Saddam Hussein saw him as the ‘Minister of Communication’. He served as the ‘Deputy Speaker’ before becoming the Prime Minister of Iraq. At present he is the leader of the ‘Islamic Dawa Party’. One of the challenges of his government is to counter political corruption. As Prime Minister, he has to combat terrorism and get back the sizeable portion of northern Iraq, which has been occupied by the Islamic State militants.