Ayad Al-Anbar

On 23 September 2026, after a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al‑Zaidi on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, US…

The last US troops belonging to the global coalition to fight the Islamic State (IS) have left Iraq, where they were stationed at Victoria Base at…

As the deadline set by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s government to bring all weapons under state control approaches, tensions have risen in Iraq…

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s visit to Washington earlier this month was an effort to move the US-Iraq relationship “from managing crises to…

Defying months of speculation over who would lead Iraq’s next government, the Coordination Framework, the country’s largest Shiite alliance, named…

Since October 2023, the Middle East and North Africa have been set ablaze, with war coming to Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, and Iran,…

Contrary to expectations of major surprises, Iraq’s sixth parliamentary elections delivered predictable results, driven by the political dynamics set…

During the 12-day war in June between Israel and the United States against Iran, banners appeared in Baghdad proclaiming: “This is the battle of…

Reports of pressure on Baghdad from the new White House administration over the Iran-linked Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) operating in Iraqi…

In 1642, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes conducted a state-of-nature thought experiment in his book De Cive, placing people in a pre-social…