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With an economy so reliant on oil, Iraq has long faced a tough balancing act between the short-term gains that can come from ramping up production and the long-term problems that can arise from overproduction.
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein arrived in Washington on Friday ahead of meetings next week with US officials.
You may have heard the name before, when they burst onto the international scene in the wake of the Arab Spring, challenged the central government and eventually a Saudi led international response. However, with the civil war winding down in Yemen, the Houthis name recognition seemed ...
The experience also comes with a message. Mr D’Souza, who has demonstrated the exhibition in Iraq’s Parliament, aims to bring the plight of Yazidis back into focus and hold ISIS fighters accountable for their crimes. “Only a handful of governments around the world have recognised the crime of genocide against the Yazidis,” he says. “Our hope is that...
President Joe Biden took office vowing to negotiate an end to a bloody war in Yemen and to remove US troops from harm's way. He enters his reelection year by launching strikes on the country instead, but his administration hopes calm can return. Experts say the Biden administration and Yemen's Huthi insurgents, as well as the group's backers in Iran, have tacitly entered a delicate and dangerous...
In 2017, in order to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, Iraqi, U.S. and coalition forces bombed, shelled and razed the city to the ground. Approximately 10,000 civilians died. Their families have spent the past five years trying to bring their city back. "You will see rebuilding, you will see reconstruction. You will see decent streets, decent parks," Ali Baroodi, a photojournalist, says. "But still, war scars are not easy to erase overnight, or even in...
Iran hands first death sentence to a protester but mass executions seen as unlikely. Amnesty International calls for stronger response to Iran’s killings of minority Baluchis. Committee to Protect Journalists advocates for jailed Iranian reporters. Iraqi PM tries to balance ties with Iran and U.S....
In Iraq’s November 2021 parliamentary elections, Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr and his Tripartite Coalition won a majority of seats, and were apparently poised to oust former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Iran-backed Coordination Framework. However, Iraq’s constitution...
Violence in Baghdad has now killed at least two dozen people and injured hundreds in the last two days. Supporters of the popular cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, some of them armed, clashed with Iraqi security forces, which include members of Iran-backed militias. The fighting comes as...
President Joe Biden's administration is finding its hands increasingly tied in Baghdad after violent clashes this week over the Iraqi government stalemate left at least 30 people dead and hundreds more injured. Various US agencies are monitoring the violence as concerns grow of a return to...