Ammar al-Hakim announced July 24 that he was stepping down as the leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), a major Shiite political party, to form the new National Wisdom party. Little is known about this new organization, although al-Hakim will retain his seat as chairman of the Shiite National Alliance, an umbrella group of Shiite political parties that hold more than half the seats in the Iraqi National Assembly. The National Wisdom party's creation comes amid two major transitions in Iraqi politics. Now that the major military battles to oust Islamic State militants from key cities such as Ramadi, Fallujah and Mosul are over , the country's attention, which had been keenly focused on the security situation, is shifting toward burgeoning political battles.