Iraqi VP calls for ‘dialogue’ amid row over parliament
Iyad Allawi, Iraqi vice-president and leader of the Al-Wataniya coalition, has urged political parties and groups to hold a “national dialogue” with a view to…
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Four million Iraqis return home after war on ISIS
Nearly four million Iraqis displaced by the war on ISIS have returned to their homes, the UN migration agency said in a report released Tuesday….
Former PM al-Maliki says won’t run for Iraq premiership
Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki announced on Sunday that he does not plan to run for the post of prime minister. Al-Maliki, who leads the…
Iraq PM sacks paramilitary chief
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday announced the dismissal of the head of the powerful Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force, which played a major role…
Trump puts Iraq in a bind over Iran
As we reported this week, a dispute over Turkey’s continued detention of an American clergyman has spiraled into the worst crisis between the two countries in…
Iraqi PM suspends electricity minister amid unrest over poor services
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi suspended his electricity minister on Sunday amid continuing protests over poor public services especially power cuts and rampant corruption, the…
Mass Iraq protests are opportunity for US to confront Iran in Baghdad
On Monday, July 16, Iraqi protesters in the southern oil city of Basra burned a poster of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei, shouting “Iran out!” It was the culmination…
Car bomb near ballot box site in Iraq’s Kirkuk kills one
One person was killed in Iraq’s Kirkuk on Sunday when a suicide car bomb went off near a storage site housing ballot boxes from a…
Iraq’s Abadi orders immediate executions of ISIS militants on death row
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday ordered the immediate execution of all convicted ISIS militants on death row, in a swift retaliation for the…
Re-analysing Islamic State’s route to Iraq: Systematic fall and decline of bureaucratic-military relationship in Post-US invasion, a probable cause?
Introduction The systematic fall of the city of Mosul in mid-2014 by self-proclaimed Islamic State shocked and awed not only the military and intelligence community…