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Archives: Iraq
Iraq strikes Back: Kurds under air travel ban, Turkey blocks Oil
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding that the Iraqi army take control of the province of Kirkuk and reclaim the…
Iraq: Kurdish Independence Vote Spurs Mideast Tension
TeleSur | - - The referendum has provoked large-scale military movements along the Iraqi Kurdish region's borders. Some 8.4 million Iraqi Kurds have voted in a referendum on whether to secede from…
How Arab Nationalism & Fundamentalism pushed away the Kurds
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Kurdistan referendum held today is probably not as likely to produce immediate turmoil in the Middle East as some pundits would have…
Iraq Supreme Court strikes down Kurdistan referendum, Clashes in Kirkuk
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Iraqi Supreme Court has ordered that the referendum on independence planned for September 25 be halted. The problem is that the Iraqi…
London Covered but 83 Iraqis killed in ISIL attack largely ignored by US TV News
TeleSur | - - Security officials say that the attacks are an attempt by the terrorist group to project strength after losing their strongholds in Iraq. The so-called Islamic State group carried…
Can Iran keep its Influence in Baghdad?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Iran wants to reunite the fighting Shiite Muslim political parties in Iraq that once gave it unconditional support. But that job is far…
Will Iraqi Kurdish Independence Referendum Further Roil the Middle East?
By Ali R. Abootalebi | (Informed Comment) | - - The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President in June 2017 announced September 25 as the day for a referendum on independence from…
As ISIL dwindles, Iraq fears extremists fleeing Syria
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Iraqi forces are upset about the safe passage granted to Islamic State fighters from Syria. They will enter Iraq, where, locals say, thousands…
Have we Won yet? Was ISIL a flash in the Pan?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - With the Iraqi campaign against ISIL having wrested from it Mosul and Talafar, and with Hawija and Qaim really the last two areas…
Iraq: Trump slams Iran, but Iran-backed Militias are key to taking Talafar from ISIL
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Shiite popular mobilization units (Iran-backed militias) have played a key role in taking of the northern city of Talafar from ISIL. The ninth…
Mosul Youth rescue Books and Music in wake of ISIL Defeat
Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | - - Two projects in Mouls show a different side to the devastated northern Iraqi city, as younger people there celebrate the end of the…
Mission Accomplished: Iraq drops chapter on evolution from school textbooks
By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com ) | - - Iraq's education ministry has quietly dropped a chapter about evolution from its biology textbooks. The ministry has so far given no explanation…
Is the Gulf Crisis bringing Iraq back into Arab World?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | ( Niqash.org ) | - - Countries like Saudi Arabia are showing new willingness to open diplomatic channels with Iraq. Motivations include a military they now respect,…
Can Iraq save Tal Afar from ISIL without Destroying the City?
By Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) | - - [N.B. The offensive against ISIL (Daesh) in Tal Afar began on Sunday. - JC] Intensive air raids, secret political talks and military forces gathering…
Iraq after ISIL needs Security, Anti-Corruption & Jobs, not Identity Politics
By Andrea Teti, Pamela Abbott, and Munqith Dagher | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | - - Ignoring priorities that have popular support in Iraq risks undermining post-ISIS attempts to build a stable country,…
Iraq’s Next Elections will be the most Important in its History
Mustafa Habib. | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - In Iraq, larger political parties disagree on everything except maintaining the status quo: Parliament just passed a law that will badly affect the…
Who defeated ISIL? Obama’s Quiet Strategy, not Trump’s Bluster
Bryan G. Williams | (Informed Comment) | - - Book excerpt from the just-published Counter Jihad: America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria [CLICK]: At the time of the writing of…
Guess What Iraq’s Biggest Problem Really Is
By Pamela Abbott, Andrea Teti and Kevin M. DeJesus | (The Conversation) | - - With the defeat of the so-called Islamic State (IS) on the battlefield looking imminent, Iraq is confronting…