Former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani found killed in a Beirut apartment

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1. 10 Nov 2026, 19:59 Al-Hadath channel reported that the family of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani had informed the Iraqi embassy in Beirut of his disappearance four days earlier, with no information on the circumstances or his whereabouts; it later quoted the family saying contact was lost one day after the last communication and that he was in Beirut at the time.
2. 10 Nov 2026, 20:19 Al-Arabiya reported that the Lebanese judiciary had received no official report from the Iraqi embassy in Beirut regarding al-Alwani's disappearance, meaning the file had not yet been registered judicially through the Iraqi diplomatic channel.
3. 10 Nov 2026, 20:27 A Lebanese source told Al-Arabiya that former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani entered through Beirut airport on 5 November.
4. 10 Nov 2026, 20:28 The Iraqi embassy in Lebanon announced that its ambassador was personally following the kidnapping of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani in Beirut and was in direct contact with the Lebanese security agencies and the family to establish the circumstances, noting that he was kidnapped and taken to an unknown destination after being lured four days earlier to a location security agencies were working to identify.
5. 10 Nov 2026, 20:29 An Iraqi security source told Al-Arabiya that investigations into al-Alwani's disappearance in Beirut were still ongoing, confirming coordination between the Iraqi and Lebanese authorities and saying the motives remained unknown, without further details.
6. 10 Nov 2026, 20:41 Lebanon Debate information reported that the body of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani had been found inside an apartment in the Tariq al-Jdideh area.
7. 10 Nov 2026, 20:50 A Lebanese security source told Al-Arabiya that three people were suspected of being linked to the killing of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani in Beirut, without details on their identity or the circumstances.
8. 10 Nov 2026, 20:55 MTV Lebanon reported that the body of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani was found in an apartment in the Tariq al-Jdideh area of Beirut, saying he was strangled after being lured to the apartment, while Lebanon Debate information said the body was found the previous night and that the strangulation took place inside the apartment at the hands of a group.
9. 10 Nov 2026, 21:00 Lebanon Debate information said al-Alwani had disputes with Nouri al-Maliki, tribal problems and was pursued in corruption cases, in addition to a file related to support for ISIS.
10. 10 Nov 2026, 21:34 Lebanon Debate reported that Discriminatory Public Prosecutor Judge Ahmed Rami al-Hajj was personally supervising the Information Branch's investigations into the killing of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani, whose body was found in the Tariq al-Jdideh area of Beirut.
11. 10 Nov 2026, 21:46 Sources told Al-Hadath that Ahmed al-Alwani stayed a few hours in the hotel where he was lodging in Beirut before leaving accompanied by four people, with no details on his destination or the reasons for his departure.
12. 11 Nov 2026, 00:01 An Iraqi security delegation arrived in Beirut to follow the al-Alwani case, with no further details announced on the case or the outcome of the visit.
13. 11 Nov 2026, 10:27 The Iraqi ambassador spoke of new suspicions in the case of the MP's killing, referring to the sequence of events moving from a hotel to an apartment described as the "death apartment", according to Lebanon Debate.
14. 11 Nov 2026, 12:24 Lebanon ON reported that al-Alwani's son was on his way to Beirut, while the question of the whereabouts of the two suspects involved in the crime remained open.
15. 11 Nov 2026, 12:46 Lebanon Debate information said the real estate broker in the killing of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani was summoned to appear before Lebanon's Information Branch as part of the ongoing investigation.

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