Iraqi Youth No Longer Tolerate Iranian Influence and State Corruption
Pro-Iranian figures are granted high-ranking positions, and many Iraqis avoid making critical comments against Iran publicly.
No Meddling in Iraqi Politics: Turkey’s Spot is on the PKK
he long delayed Iraqi Kurdistan Parliamentary elections were finally held on Sunday, September 30th.
Iraqi Parliamentary Elections: The Changes and Challenges in Iraqi Politics
The Iraqi parliamentary elections took place on May 12, 2018 in the shadow of the concerns shaped by the profound crises the country confronted as of 2003.
Iraqi parliament speaker backs Turkey’s anti-PKK fight
he visiting Iraqi Parliament Speaker, Salim al-Jabouri, has backed Turkey’s fight against the PKK terror group.
Understanding the Iran-Pakistan Standoff and Its Futility
It read, “Iran Hits Back,” with the caption “Missiles rain down on the headquarters of Mossad and terrorists in Iraqi Kurdistan, Syria’s Idlib and Pakistan’s Balochistan.
US and Iraq to Talk on Transition from Military Coalition to Bilateral Relations
Ambassador to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, to Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on January 25, 2024.
Iran Launches Strikes on Alleged Israeli Spy HQ in Iraq
The Iraqi government has pledged to take legal measures against what it considers a violation of Iraq's sovereignty, with plans to file a complaint at the United Nations Security Council.
The End of the Palestinian State? Jenin Is Only the Beginning
hanks to the Iraqi army, the Palestinian city of Jenin was not captured in 1948 when Israel was created.
Funding Violence with Drugs: The Cases of Hezbollah and the PKK
Operating these activities from areas like the Beqaa Valley and South Lebanon, the group extended its activities to the Iraqi and Syrian borders following the collapse of the existing states there.
The Resurrection of Palestinian Cinema?
Arab producers also contributed to the Palestinian film industry at the time; for example, Iraqi producer Muhammed Tawfik who produced dozens of films such as the Child and the Toy (1986), and Syrian Muhammed Malas who produced The Dream of the City in 1983.
Turkey’s Right to Self-Defense Requires Cross-Border Operations in Syria and Iraq
The legal bases for Turkey’s operations have periodically changed from the expressed or tacit consent of the Iraqi governments to the right to self-defense.
Jerusalem “Flag Parade” Reveals Israel’s Lack of Sovereignty
One would be hard-pressed to find a statement that Algiers is the capital of Algeria or Baghdad is the capital of Iraq by an Algerian or Iraqi official.
Why Turkey Is Conducting Operation Claw-Lock in Northern Iraq Now
The Operation Claw series aims to carve out a “security belt” parallel to the Turkish-Iraqi border southwards in order to deny the PKK the capacity to operate, organize, train, recruit, and attack within and from the predicted security belt.
Iran’s Proxies in the Middle East: A Halted Transition to Politics?
Also, the Fatah Alliance and other Iran-backed parties affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) rejected Iraq’s recent parliamentary election held in October 2021 and tried to further destabilize the already chaotic Iraqi politics.
The GCC States’ Russian Dilemma
” Kuwait’s sensitivities on state sovereignty might go back to painful memories of the Iraqi invasion of the Gulf monarchy in 1990.
The U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq: One Boot Inside, the Other Out?
n January 2020, a military strike by the United States assassinated Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of the elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, then deputy head of an Iraqi paramilitary organization known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU).
Kurdish Voices from Afrin Unheard in Western Media
On one occasion, on June 8, 2018, the website Enabaladi and Iraqi-Kurdish Rudaw wrote that Misto had been assassinated.
The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry in Yemen
Erlou, who was smuggled into Yemen in 2020, was likely evacuated on an Iraqi plane from Yemen to Iraq, before flying home to Iran where he died from COVID19 on December 18, 2021.
The Lebanese Catch-22: Squeezed between Iran and Saudi Arabia
The results of the Iraqi parliamentary elections that were held last month and the huge blow that the Iran-aligned militias were dealt, cemented the Saudi conviction, especially as Riyadh maintains good relations with the caretaker Iraqi PM – who until now remains the most favorable candidate to be reappointed to the position– and the winner of the parliamentary elections, Muqtada al-Sadr.
Why Russia Protects the YPG in Syria
Moscow was expecting to enter the far east of Syria at the Iraqi border and the oil-rich region of Deir Ezzor in the southeast, but Trump’s decision to protect the oil hindered Russia from doing so.
