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The Kirkuk crisis shows the failure of the ruling political class to manage broader problems effectively and craft political settlements to secure the peaceful coexistence of Iraq's various sects. Agencies/Majalla

Kirkuk crisis: A microcosm of government failure to forge a national identity

The Kirkuk crisis shows the failure of the ruling political class to manage broader problems effectively and craft political settlements to secure the peaceful coexistence of Iraq's various sects.

Ayad Al-Anbar 18, Sep 2023
Fighters from the Kurdish Peshmerga affiliated with the Iranian separatist Kurdistan Freedom Party, at a military base near Erbil. AFP

Border tensions, Kurdish separatists and an Iranian ultimatum

As a deadline on a security deal over Iranian Kurds in Iraq looms, Tehran is eyeing military action if camps are not disarmed and moved. That could provoke an international response, including the US.

Rustum Mahmud 17, Sep 2023
Iraqi protesters block a road following protests in the multi-ethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk on September 2, 2023. AFP

Kirkuk slides into violence over Kurdish party HQ handover

Distrust runs deep in the multi-ethnic, oil-rich city of Kirkuk as "rioting" and gunfire leaves young men dead. Al Majalla lifts the curtain on the events that transpired.

Shelly Kittleson 03, Sep 2023
Tires are burnt along a road north of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on June 30, 2010, as Kurds protest against the local authority’s pending removal of their houses built on government land. AFP

Kirkuk: Iraq’s perpetual missed opportunity

Fresh clashes have erupted in Kirkuk with at least one Kurdish protester reportedly killed. Al Majalla explains why the ethnically diverse city has long been a powder keg and flashpoint for violence.

Rustum Mahmud 02, Sep 2023
Al Majalla takes a look at Iraqi Premier Abd al-Karim Qasim's  attempt to invade Kuwait in 1961 and explains why Saddam felt that he could succeed where Qasim failed. AFP_Getty_Majalla

29 years before Saddam invaded Kuwait, another Iraqi leader tried but failed

Al Majalla takes a look at Iraqi Premier Abd al-Karim Qasim's attempt to invade Kuwait in 1961 and explains why Saddam felt that he could succeed where Qasim failed

Sami Moubayed 20, Aug 2023
FIFA bans, ardent fans and an enduring legacy... Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi died of Covid-19 in 2020, but his memory remains vivid in the minds of the nation he inspired. Martha Kochanek

From childhood hero to friend: My journey with Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi

FIFA bans, ardent fans and an enduring legacy... Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi died of Covid-19 in 2020, but his memory remains vivid in the minds of the nation he inspired.

Ali Mahmoud Khodir 15, Aug 2023
The origins of this mafia class can be traced back to the power vacuum the US invasion of Iraq created in 2003. 20 years later its influence is pervasive and its presence ostentatious. AP/AFP/MAJALLA

The conspicuous rise of Iraq's mafia class

The origins of this mafia class can be traced back to the power vacuum the US invasion of Iraq created in 2003. 20 years later, its influence is pervasive and its presence aggravating.

Ayad Al-Anbar 13, Aug 2023
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Saddam Hussein, King Hussein and Hosni Mubarak, wave to the crowd, on June 15, 1989 during a motorcade rally prior to the opening of the Arab Cooperation Council in Alexandria, Egypt. AFP

Saddam formed a four-way alliance and suggested unifying armies and intelligence

After the Iraq-Iran war concluded in 1988, a significant turn of events took place that would lead to Saddam's decision to invade Kuwait

Ibrahim Hamidi 06, Aug 2023
Euphrates river near a pedestrian bridge amidst a heavy dust storm in the city of Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province on May 23, 2022. Asaad NIAZI_AFP

Iraq's suffocating silence over climate change

Al Majalla gathers the thoughts of writers and artists on the strange silence in the country's cultural discourse on climate change – with the country one of the most directly affected in the world.

Ali Mahmoud Khodir 06, Aug 2023
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. Shutterstock

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.

Hesham Alghannam 04, Aug 2023
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Iran’s waning influence

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Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid distribution centres: a real-life Hunger Games

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People gather to celebrate after Lebanese parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as the new president, on January 9, 2025, in Al-Aaishiyah, Lebanon. Ramiz Dallah/Getty
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Lebanon’s second chance at statehood

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The crippling of Hezbollah's dominance and the Assad regime's fall in Syria has opens a narrow but historic opening for the Lebanese people

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Oman is quietly redefining its development model

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It is no longer the Gulf's quiet outlier but a country quietly setting a new standard for sustainable economic development in the region

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Rabbi behind the Abraham Accords: Trump key to Israel-Syria peace

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American Rabbi Abraham Cooper has just met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, weeks after meeting Syria's foreign minister in New York. Al Majalla went to ask his thoughts.

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