US and Iraq to Talk on Transition from Military Coalition to Bilateral Relations
In a significant development, the United States and Iraq are poised to initiate discussions regarding the conclusion of the U.S.-led…
In a significant development, the United States and Iraq are poised to initiate discussions regarding the conclusion of the U.S.-led…
The just war doctrine is not perfect and there is an urgent need for a third way debate.
Although Iran’s short-term expectations from its proxies were mostly military, there has been a strong political dimension since from the…
The U.S. withdrawal of combat missions from Iraq will not stop drone and rocket attacks by the Shiite militias on…
Iran’s proxies are not only active in the “Shia Crescent” stretching from Iran to the Mediterranean Sea, but they also…
The Erbil Conference hosted more than 300 Iraqi delegates, including tribal and religious leaders who called for normalization with Israel.
The U.S. administration has two options in Iraq: either to back track Trump’s harsh rhetoric on Iran and Iraq and…
If the PUK works with Turkey in the latter’s campaign to terminate the PKK in Iraq, in return, the PUK…
Recent developments in Iraq illustrate that the KDP and PUK will continue to dominate Iraqi politics. You can essentially read…
What will be Trump’s forthcoming strategy to contain Iran’s expansionist policy in the Middle East? If Trump’s policy is to…
The PUK’s candidate Barham Salih was elected as the new president of Iraq on Tuesday, 2 October, in an easy…
The KRG is also not happy with the presence of the PKK in its region. As PM Barzani stated 5…
The African proverb goes to say that when two elephants wrestle, it is only the grass on which the wrestle…
This is the first comprehensive counter-terror operation against the PKK. This time, the military strategy is not only targeting to…
Only after such a tri-partite cooperation of Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, can the PKK finally be cleaned off from Qandil.…
U.S. regional allies, the Israel-Gulf bloc’s demands toward breaking Iran’s regional influence and the rigidity of U.S. President Trump’s steps…
The propaganda machine for the PKK has also lost its functionality after Turkey’s Afrin operation. This will certainly affect the…
The visiting Iraqi Parliament Speaker, Salim al-Jabouri, has backed Turkey’s fight against the PKK terror group and said: “We are…
As a result of its alliance with the US, the PKK expanded territories it captured and began to consolidate its…
Although Masoud Barzani remains as president of the KDP and is playing a consultative, though not insignificant role to Nechirvan…
The Iraqi central government will lay a new Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline with a length of approximately 350 kilometers and a…
The first outcome of the invasion was the US-controlled destruction of civil and land registries in Kirkuk. Those who were…
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