Iraq's transport minister orders senior reshuffle at state airports authority

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Transport Minister Wahab Salman al-Hasnawi issued a series of administrative orders removing several senior officials at the state-run authority that oversees the country's airports, the ministry said. The dismissals targeted the directors of legal affairs, finance, human resources, internal audit and the contracts department, according to the ministry statement. The reshuffle also removed the head of the airports security unit, the deputy director general of the authority and the head of its civil engineering division. The orders stated that new appointments and acting assignments would be issued separately. The ministry described the changes as a routine organizational process aimed at improving efficiency in airport management. No further details on the reasons for the individual dismissals or the timing of replacements were immediately available.