Congress and the Trump administration should privately agree to some ground rules for timing deterrent strikes on truly high-value targets, while quietly deploying more force-protection assets like Patriot missiles.
messages.detailsBaghdads motorized rickshaws are a symbol of the larger crisis Iraq faces as it fails to give its youths a viable future.
messages.detailsWhether by force or politics, Iran desperately needs to reconsolidate power among Shia constituencies throughout the region, but this challenge may prove insurmountable given current public sentiment in Iraq and Lebanon.
messages.detailsCoronavirus invaded the world harvesting casualties day after day. Started in Wuhan, china reaching the Arab world and crossing the Iraqi borders through visitors from Iran
messages.detailsThe decision to kill General Qasem Soleimani has received widespread attention. However, another important Iranian military leader, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was also killed in the attack. Ranj Alaaldin explains why
messages.detailsAnnabaa Organization participated in the conference
messages.detailsWith the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the U.S.-Iran standoff has shifted from attrition toward open conflict. Tehran will retaliate – the only question is how – prompting another response from Washington. Allies of both should interc
messages.detailsHezbollah leader sponsors truce talks, with Iraqi paramilitaries endorsing Hadi al-Amiri as PMF leader and Tehran courting Moqtada al-Sadr in bid to form united resistance
messages.detailsAlthough the ongoing Shia-led protests in Iraq have not spread to regions with a Sunni majority (including Kurdish areas), many members of these communities have supported the protest clamor...
messages.detailsA new wave of Arab uprisings suggests that the authoritarian bargain of the past may be collapsing.
messages.detailsResignation of premier and football victory provide respite to protesters grief over slain comrades
messages.detailsIraqi Shia have lost faith in their government because it has failed to meet their basic needs in any of these three categories. After the fall of Saddam Hussein and the rise of new governance models
messages.detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
messages.detailsNearly a decade after the Arab Spring fizzled, a new wave of protest has swept over the Middle East and North Africa. What is different this time, and will the protesters get what they want?
messages.detailsFollowing mass uprisings in Algeria and Sudan this summer, protesters have now taken to the streets in Lebanon and Iraq to demand better economic conditions and an end to mis-governance.
messages.detailsIt is tuk-tuk vs. Land Cruiser at the heart of Iraqs uprising — and the scrappy tuk-tuk, for now, is winning.
messages.detailsUnrest is seemingly everywhere. We look at the some of the reasons for and responses to it in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Chile, Catalonia and Iraq
messages.detailsMilitary commander in Idlib and others living nearby describe eight helicopters swooping in at low altitude, multiple explosions and three-hour battle
messages.detailsthe protests launched in most of south and middle cities of Iraq. A protestations continued six days
messages.detailsTehran may be good at winning influence, but it is bad at ruling after that.
messages.detailsRussia has steadily inserted itself into Iraqs military, energy, and educational sectors, and these relationships could turn Baghdad further away from the United States now that the Trump administration has ceded Syria to Moscow.
messages.detailsPolitical parties behind Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi pressure him to not resign.
messages.detailsMuddled governance, harsh crackdowns, and outside interference threaten to overturn the fragile freedom that Iraqis have won at great cost.
messages.details