Leader of the Iraqi political Sadrist Movement Muqtada Al-Sadr on Friday called for dissolving all armed factions in the country during the Friday sermon in Sadr City, as reported by Iraqi News .
After Iraqi politicians threw a wrench into their state, putting self before country, the trip of President Joe Biden to Saudi Arabia offers Iraqis a chance to make things right. And by the same token it offers America the opportunity to reconnect with Iraqi allies, without whom containing Iran might prove arduous. Iraq was once the top priority of the world’s only superpower.
The Iraqi Kurdistan region s ambition to heat European homes with its natural gas could promote the region from a pawn to a queen in the chess game that is international politics. Yet an Iraqi court r.
Elections represent a contract between a nation’s people and the governing classes; the people have their say, and bestow a mandate to govern upon those they select. However, in some states this fundamental social contract has been broken beyond repair. In the October 2021 elections, the Iraqi people spoke with remarkable clarity about who they did NOT want to represent them;