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The sun sets behind burning gas flares at the Daura Oil Refinery Complex in Baghdad, 22 December 2024 AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP

Energy in Iraq: the new front line between Washington and Tehran

Baghdad is opening its energy sector to US investment while racing to diversify oil exports, strengthen its economy, and reduce its vulnerability to regional conflict

Salam Zaidan 26 July 2026
The UN Mission to Iraq, led by Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (L), is to wind-down and wrap-up by December 2025 following a request from Iraq's prime minister (R). Andrei Cojocaru

United Nations exit from Iraq keeps Iran's braying clans at bay

After 20 years, the UN Mission is being wound up and packed off, sacrificed for the political shimmying needed by Shia al-Sudani, as he dances between the US and those who want US troops out

Carolyn Moorman 16 August 2024

The U.S.-Iraqi Relationship Can Still Be Salvaged

One of the most dramatic consequences of killing Iranian Quds Force commanderQasem Soleimaniis unfolding at a rapid pace: the severing of ties betweenthe…

Meghan L. O'Sullivan 17 January 2020
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As the US and Iran spar over Hormuz deal, the world waits with bated breath

12 August 2026

Any agreement that restores traffic through the strait will bring immediate relief, but repairing the damage wrought by war—and restoring confidence—will take far longer

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
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Politics

Is multipolarity helping or hindering Iran?

12 August 2026

A bit of both. It enabled its rise as a regional power, then helped weaken it, and may now help prevent its complete defeat.

Christopher Phillips
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Mecca diplomacy and the New Middle East

12 August 2026

Riyadh has made clear its vision for the future of a "new Middle East"—and it is one based on mutual respect, unity, peace and prosperity

Zaid bin Ali al-Fadhil
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How AI is rewriting the rules of war and peace

10 August 2026

As states race to embed algorithms in systems of reconnaissance, targeting, air defence, and military decision-making, a new layer of risk is taking shape

Mohammed Mansour
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The art of Taqāsīm: dividing time and charging silence

11 August 2026

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