It was on 6 May 2020, following nearly six months of political wrangling, that Iraq's new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, took office, followi
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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 lock
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A decade of anti-government protests in the Arab world have thrown popular trust in the military into the garbage bin and undermined the military’s
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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
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Iran has $5 billion from exports of gas and electricity piled in a bank account at the central bank of Iraq but cannot transfer it. (more…)
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Who wants regime change in Iran? First and foremost, large sections of the Iranian population, if the reports of mass anti-government demonstratio
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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 stan
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Glance at a map of the Middle East, and the geopolitical–cum–religious complications facing Iraq are immediately apparent. The country is like a
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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 degre
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Towards the end of February 2019, coalition troops engaged in the assault on Islamic State’s last stronghold – Baghuz on the banks of the Euphrates
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