BAGHDAD: Iraq has a new prime minister, and his name is Nouri Al-Maliki. The actual occupant of the post, Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani, is a nobody, with zero parliamentary support and entirely beholden to those who placed him in power. There are excellent reasons why hundreds of thousands of Iraqis brought Baghdad to a halt in August over Sudani’s candidacy. In 2010, when Maliki
The past five months have seen a steady decline in Iranian exports to Iraq, according to Iranian sources. These insiders have warned Tehran leadership officials of the grave potential consequences of this downturn, particularly its negative impact on the country’s current dominance of the Iraqi market and the possibility of its products losing their competitive edge over
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An explosion has rocked an arms depot belonging to a faction of Iraq s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), security sources have revealed. According to a report in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed citing local med.
With at least 30 dead and hundreds injured in clashes in Baghdad last week, Iraq is on the threshold of civil war. With the country’s survival as an independent nation in the balance, civil society protesters took to the streets pledging renewed mass demonstrations and chanting that “Iran will not rule Iraq.” Iraqi intelligence warns of further assassinations by Iran-backed