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A file photo of an Iraqi policeman manning machine gun near the Iraqi-Syrian borders at the Abu Kamal-qaim border crossing, the main border post between Iraq and Syria, September 8, 2012. (REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani)

Smuggling across Syrian-Iraqi Borders: New Challenge to Intl Coalition

Smuggling activities between Syria and Iraq poses a new challenge for the US-led international coalition, whose troops are located on both sides of Syrian-Iraqi borders. The coalition forces are…

Jiwan Soz 27 August 2021

Confessions of Lebanese-American Translator Who Spied for Hezbollah

Mariam Taha Thompson, a 62-year-old Lebanese-American who was a contract Arabic translator with the American forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, was sentenced last month to 23 years in jail for…

Mohammad Ali Salih 14 August 2021

An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) inspects damage at the party headquarters in Koy Sanjaq, 100 kilometers east of the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region Erbil, on September 12, 2018, after it was hit days earlier by an Iranian rocket attack. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Tehran’s Killing Machine to Get Rid of Influential Opponents

A prominent member in the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), which is the oldest Kurdish party in the country, denounced the assassination of a party leader in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi…

Jiwan Soz 13 August 2021

Raghad Saddam Hussein: Her Father’s Defense and Prospects of Political Involvement in Iraq

Raghad Saddam Hussein is the eldest daughter of Saddam Hussein, the late president of Iraq. She took the responsibility of helping her father during the trial after which he was eventually executed…

Majalla 18 February 2021

Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi: Iraq’s New Prime Minister is On a Mission to Curb Corruption

Early Life and Education Mohamed Tawfiq Allawi was born on June 1, 1954, in Baghdad. He would spend his formative years in Iraq’s capital city where…

Ali El Shamy 21 February 2020

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…

Emma Sky 11 January 2020

New Leader, Same Old Problems

ISISis down but not out. InMarch 2019,U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces captured the group’s last territorial stronghold in theMiddle East, the town of Baghuz in easternSyria. Seven months later,…

Asaad Almohammad 03 January 2020

Iran-backed Storming of U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Tests Washington Partisanship

A crisis in Iraq has reached the gates of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and presented a critical test of the administration’s resolve in confronting Iranian-orchestrated provocations. With Washington…

Joseph Braude 03 January 2020

General Qasem Soleimani is Dead

It was only yesterday when the Arab states were mired in the prospects of a possible conflict with Turkey, as the motion to send troops to Libya was passed in the National Assembly in Ankara. But one…

Ali El Shamy 03 January 2020

How US Withdrawal from the Middle East Accidentally Helps Advance Iran’s Regional Playbook

Protests in Iraq have exposed long-simmering resentment at Iran’s influence in the country, with demonstrators targeting Shia political parties and militias with close ties to Tehran. People have…

Yasmine El Geressi 22 November 2019

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