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It took Iraqi political leaders a year, but a new government emerged from the brinkmanship of the country’s main faction leaders. Mohammad Shi’a al-Sudani,...
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It took Iraqi political leaders a year, but a new government emerged from the brinkmanship of the country’s main faction leaders. Mohammad Shi’a al-Sudani,...
It has now been more than three years since Iraq erupted into protest. Corruption and self-dealing eroded Iraqi faith in their political class. Adil...
Almost a year ago, President Joe Biden signed the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act that included $260 million for the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga. Two...
It has now been almost twenty years since President George W. Bush ordered the invasion and occupation of Iraq. More than 40 percent of...
History will not be kind to Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Iraq’s caretaker prime minister. A respected human rights researcher, journalist, and security technocrat, there was broad...
Hoshyar Zebari, Masoud Barzani’s uncle and Iraq’s former finance and foreign minister, arrived in Washington last week. After a couple of perfunctory roundtables at...
Iraqi Kurdish politics are a Middle Eastern Hunger Games spread across generations: Families form alliances to defeat opponents, but then turn against each other...
In 2003, I went to a market in the Sadr City slums to acquire an Iraqi passport. My purpose was to demonstrate to American...
Iraqi Kurdish politician Masoud Barzani never cared for democracy. Even as he paid lip service to it for the sake of American support, he...
Does America Have a Goal or Strategy for Ukraine? On Friday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced the G7 had agreed to impose a price cap regime on...