Sadrist leaders are hinting that mass prayers on Friday could escalate into violence, and it is not clear if the cleric himself is really in control of his own movement anymore
While the various Iraqi parties continue to bicker over their respective share of the country’s next government months after the October parliamentary elections were held, Iraq is facing an existential threat of a different kind. Acute water shortages could cause the two main rivers that nourished one of the world’s greatest civilizations to dry up within just a few years. The
Iraqi parliament committee tasks clarification from the country’s foreign minister on the alleged agreement with Turkey allowing it to cross the border into Iraq.