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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...
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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...
After two days of deadly unrest, armed supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr began to clear out of Baghdad’s Green Zone at the behest of the...
BAGHDAD, IRAQ—Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq’s mercurial powerbroker, announced his retirement from politics as political gridlock in Iraq continues. Soon after the announcement, Sadr’s supporters stormed...
Dueling protests swept the streets of Baghdad on Friday. In doing so, they emphasized the rift between the two Shiite centers of power in...
The gap between Washington’s perspective of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and reality grows daily. Many in the State Department remember Kadhimi as the...
According to Iraqi and Turkish sources, a barrage of rockets struck the vicinity of the Turkish consulate in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul on...