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Since the twilight of the Cold War at the beginning of the 1990s, the United States has meddled militarily–or even waged outright wars–in numerous...
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Since the twilight of the Cold War at the beginning of the 1990s, the United States has meddled militarily–or even waged outright wars–in numerous...
Middle East expert and In-House Defense Expert Maya Carlin on why the Iran-Iraq War was so horrific: When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, President...
Iraqi politics are messy. The country is a democracy, and no single individual is able to dominate the country. Unlike their counterparts in Syria,...
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...