Messy Missions: Uncoordinated Diplomacy Takes Iraqi Kurdish Political Crisis to the World
Kawa Sheikh-Abdulla Niqash – Sulaimaniya Three diplomatic missions left Iraqi Kurdistan over the last fortnight. But they only served to...
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Choosing to Return? Prospects for Durable Solutions in Iraq
OXFAM Executive Summary – December 2015 Nearly ten months since the earliest reports of returnees in parts of the country, a...
The Perpetual Coma of “COP21”: Climate Change Conference in Paris and Iraqi Civil Society
*Ismaeel Dawood Paris, 12 December 2015 Recent news has been dominated by the negotiations of presidents in the ongoing world...
The Blighted City – The Shocking Decline of Iraq’s Oil Capital
The Economist – Basrah WHEN not organising protests at the gates of Basra’s giant oilfields, jobless graduates spend their days playing...
Iraq’s Sistani at Odds with Khamenei
An unnamed Iraqi MP spoke to Alaraby Aljadeed on their growing rift. BEIRUT – A rift has grown between the...
US Must Back Kurdistan Region’s Democratic Institutions, Not An Illegal President
Source: Pasewan On Monday 12 October, 2015, security forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) prevented Dr. Yousef Mohammad, the...
Dream of ‘Other Iraq’ Crumbles: Whose Political System is More Stable – Iraqi Kurdistan’s or the ‘Real’ Iraq’s?
Niqash – Sulaimaniyah In Iraqi Kurdistan one local party has just paralysed the whole political system. It’s a region touted...
What Favors Dictatorship in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region?
Dr. Showan Khurshid | NRT The crises we face today, in the Federal Region of Kurdistan, are not just because...
Iraq’s Government, Society Struggle with Widespread Bribery
Baghdad, Iraq — AlMonitor With shocking innocence, Ali al-Sultani from Babil, a city 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Baghdad,...
Iraq’s New Law on Political Parties And Militias Unlikely to Succeed
Iraq’s new political parties law tries to separate political entities from their affiliated militias. But, as many local analysts argue,...
A New Statement Emerges From Iraqi Protestors: We Will Continue Until We Achieve Our Legitimate Demands
It has been six weeks since the peaceful demonstrations in Baghdad and the Iraqi provinces began, and there has yet...
Kurdistan’s Politicized Society Confronts a Sultanistic System
By Kawa Hassan, Visiting Scholar, Middle-East Center August 18, 2015 Source: Carnegie Middle East Center The Kurdistan region of...