Tag: Iraq

Iraq. The Water Shortage Crisis in Iraq (Bahrooz Jaafar, BESA Center)

Iraqi woman on parched land in southern Iraq, image via MEMRI The Middle East and North Africa are dry, with higher temperatures, fewer rivers, and...

Iraq. Moqtada al-Sadr says he will participate in Iraq general election (Al Jazeera)

The populist Shia Muslim scholar, Moqtada al-Sadr, has said he and his supporters would take part in Iraq’s October general election, reversing a decision...

Iraq/Iran/Saudi Arabia. Iraq summit seeks to mend Middle East fractures (Al Jazeera)

Officials from around the Middle East began arriving in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday ahead of a summit aiming to promote peace and reconciliation in...

Iraq/Iran/Saudi Arabia. Iraq Seeks to Ease Saudi-Iran Hostility at Baghdad Summit (VoA)

Reuters Iraq has invited Iran and Tehran's Gulf Arab foes to a summit in Baghdad with the objective of calming tensions which have brought them...

Iraq – Iraq moves to protect state property (Al Monitor)

Mustafa Saadoun The Baghdad Operations Command was tasked Aug. 12 with protecting the Baghdad municipal team, which has been carrying out a major campaign to remove all encroachments...

Iraq/Turkey/PKK – Turkish soldier killed in mortar attack in northern Iraq (Al Jazeera)

The PKK has waged a rebellion in the mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey since 1984 that has killed more than 40,000 people Kurdish rebels...

Iraq/USA – Treat Iraq’s Iran-aligned militias like ISIS (Brookings)

Ranj Alaaldin writes: Iraq is beset with crises. In the scorching summer heat, the country is suffering from electricity and water shortages, longstanding challenges...

Europe/Iraq/Belarus – EU pushes Iraq to stem migrant flights to Belarus (Euractiv, AFP)

Euractiv writes: The European Union said on Thursday (29 July) it was pressing Iraq to help stem the flow of migrants to Belarus who...

USA/Iraq – What will US combat forces withdrawal mean for Iraq? (Brookings)

Ranj Alaaldin and Adrianna Pita write: The White House meeting between President Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was primarily framed around the future of...

Iran/Iraq – Iran exports to Iraq up 54% in 3 months (IRNA)

Head of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce, Jahanbakhsh Sanjabi addressing a meeting in Kermanshah on Thursday, said that the figures indicate that 95 percent of bilateral...

Iraq – An “illiterate generation”—one of Iraq’s untold pandemic stories (Atlantic Council)

Hezha Barzani writes for Atlantic Council: The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in Iraq are devastating. With a population of over thirty-nine million, Iraq...

USA/Iraq – Is the Iraq War over… again? (Atlantic Council)

Kirsten Fontenrose, Andrew L. Peek, Abbas Kadhim write for Atlantic Council: First Afghanistan, now Iraq. Seven years after US troops returned to the country to fight...

USA/Iraq – Joint Statement on the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Dialogue (US Department of State)

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq. The delegations of...

Iraqi PM al-Kadhimi: Iraq does not need US combat troops (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Iraq’s prime minister has said his country no longer requires American combat troops to fight ISIL (ISIS), but a formal timeframe...

Cash-strapped Lebanon signs fuel deal with Iraq to ease crisis (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Iraq has signed an agreement allowing the cash-strapped Lebanese government to pay for 1 million tonnes of heavy fuel oil a year...

(USA/Iraq) U.S. Announces Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq (US Department of State)

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE The United States is pleased to announce nearly $155 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people of...