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A member of Iraq's PMF stands in front of a banner depicting slain Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (L) and Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, on January 2, 2023.

The week that Beirut and Baghdad broke the Iranian crescent

Qassem Soleimani spent years building a network of pro-Iranian proxies or state allies in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. Syria fell in December 2024. At the end of June, so did two others

Maneli Mirkhan 10 July 2026

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A new book tackles estrangement both at home and in exile

Abbas Khider's novel The Memory Forger exposes the inherited structures of repression left behind by dictatorial regimes, and the hollow Western claims about human fraternity and equality.

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Cairo's evolution and the endurance of the Arab city

Long before Europe's major capitals emerged, Arab cities formed vast, sophisticated urban systems. Cairo's architectural evolution traces the rise, openness, and endurance of this civilisation

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A group photo of the leaders and representatives of the Arab countries participating in the Baghdad Summit on May 17, 2025.

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Why the Arab world must forge a collective vision of the future

The Arab Summit is taking place in Baghdad amidst exceptional regional and international circumstances. Can individual and collective Arab security be secured?

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Revived relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia are full of promise for the region. Hesham Alghannam’s personal account of a trip to Baghdad shows what has been achieved and what it means.

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Baghdad brims with promise as Iraq opens up to the Arab world

Riyadh significantly contributed to Iraq's move to openness via soft economic intervention. Hesham Alghannam's personal account of a trip to Baghdad shows what this means for Iraq and the region.

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Iraqi lawmakers attend the first session of the new Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, on January 9, 2022. (File photo via Reuters)

Iraqi Law Criminalizes Calls for Normalization with Israel

On Thursday 26 of May, the Iraqi Parliament passed a law, titled “Criminalizing Normalization and Establishment of Relations with the Zionist Entity”, 275 lawmakers voted in favor of it in Iraq’s 329…

Suzan Quitaz 27 May 2022

Mr. Taha Yassin Ramadan, First Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq

From Archive: Taha Yassin Ramadan to Majalla: Peace with Iran is Possible Under the Current Regime

Baghdad: In Iraq, they call him the "difficult man" and "the man of major missions," He is the author of political decision No. 2. He rarely laughs and is known for his deep understanding of Iraqi…

Nora Fakhoury 24 January 2022

Iraqi President Barham Saleh (C), Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi (L) and Parliament Speaker Muhammad Al-Halbousi (R) receive Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (2-R), and Jordan's King Abdullah II (2-L), in the capital Baghdad on June 27, 2021, in the first visit by an Egyptian head of state to Baghdad in three decades. (AFP)

The Egyptian-Jordanian-Iraqi Tripartite Summit

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II held a tripartite summit with Iraq's president Sunday, in the first visit by an Egyptian head of state to Baghdad in three decades…

AFP 27 June 2021

Supporters of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force protest outside the US embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 1, 2020 to condemn the US air strikes. (Getty)

The Death of the U.S.-Iraqi Relationship

The assassination of Iranian GeneralQasem Soleimanion the outskirts ofBaghdadwas a major escalation in the conflict betweenthe United StatesandIran. But theU.S.drone strike that killed the…

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