Before Iraq Election, Shi’ite Militias Unleashed in War on Sunni Insurgents
BY NED PARKER, AHMED RASHEED AND RAHEEM SALMAN Reuters The Sunni militants who seized the riverside town of Buhriz late...
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Syrians and Iraqis protest the kurdish ‘Berlin wall’
niqash | Abdul-Khaleq Dosky | Dohuk To better protect their borders, authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan are digging a large trench...
WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND
An increasingly authoritarian leader, a return of sectarian violence, and a nation worried for its future. BY DEXTER FILKINS, Newyorker On...
Will a New Force Emerge in Iraq?
The fact that political entities have not yielded anyone with an alternate vision reflects the nature of post-2003 Iraqi politics...
Iraqi Secularists Under Attack Ahead of Elections!
Ali Mamouri – AlMonitor Kadhem al-Haeri, a cleric who has close ties with the Islamic Dawa Party and the Iranian regime,...
Iraq Votes 2014: Election Posters Reveal Hidden Messages, New Alliances, Surprising Strategies
Niqash | Mustafa Habib | Baghdad Campaigning for Iraq’s elections started last week. Almost immediately the nation’s streets were covered...
Interview Gertrude Bell Documentary: ‘She Would be Unhappy with Iraq Today’
Victorian-era explorer Gertrude Bell contributed much to the making of what is now modern Iraq. And now Western popular culture...
Najaf’s Shiite Seminaries Enter 21st Century
Ali Mamouri – AlMonitor The Shiite seminary (hawza) in Najaf witnessed huge developments in its educational program in the mid-20th...
Iraqi Elections, Iranian Interests
Kenneth M. Pollack Iran@SABAN A major event for Iran is barely a month away, though few in Washington seem to...
The Right to Heal Hearings
On the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis and U.S. military veterans came together to hold the...
Banned for Bad Behaviour: Criticising Iraqi PM Enough to Get MPs Banned from Elections?
Niqash | Baghdad | 20.03.2014 A number of high profile MPs have been banned from running in Iraq’s upcoming general...
Shiite leader retires: what next for the millions in the sadrist movement?
Baghdad – Niqash After Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his retirement from politics this week, there were many questions being asked....