When Pope Francis sets foot in Iraq on Friday, he will be breaking historic ground while manoeuvring religious and political minefields. So will his f
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On 9 January 2021, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence reported that security forces, in cooperation with the Iraqi Directorate of General Military Intellig
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On 25 June 2020, fourteen members of the Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah (KH) were going about their usual nefarious business. On this occasio
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It was on 6 May 2020, following nearly six months of political wrangling, that Iraq's new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, took office, following
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It was back in September 2019 that anti-government protests began sweeping across Iraq. Eventually many of the nation’s cities were almost in lockdo
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Anyone relying on Western TV stations like CNN or the BBC for their news could be forgiven for believing that the people of Iraq have risen up in a
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Iraq is in total chaos from two unconnected threats to its very existence. On the one hand domestic protesters have brought the country to a stands
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The years of internal conflict that followed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his regime in Iraq in 2003 have at last been succeeded by a degree
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Iraq arguably entered a new phase of ‘post-sectarianism’ since 2015. This was evident during the popular protests that began in the summer of 2015 an
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