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Iraqi Politics
Iraq, Saudi flags won’t touch ground at World Cup over Islamic text
Iraqi flag is held upright above the field instead of being placed on the grass over Islamic text at FIFA...
Iran’s IRGC builds secret Iraqi cells to strike Gulf states: Reuters
Supporters of pro-Iran Iraqi Shiite Hezbollah brigades attend a rally in military uniforms in Baghdad, Iraq, March 28, 2025. Photo:...
Turkey will not extend Iraq oil pipeline deal in current form, official says
A tanker at Turkey's Ceyhan port. Photo: BOTAS/botasint.com ANKARA,— Turkey is not prepared to extend the current Iraq's Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil...
Iraq asks Turkey to extend Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline deal by one year
Tankers at Turkey's Ceyhan port. Photo: AP BAGHDAD,— Iraq has asked Turkey to extend the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline agreement by...
Peshmerga must be separated from parties, put under Iraq state: official
Hassan Fadam, a senior leader within the Al-Hikma National Movement, also known as the National Wisdom Movement, led by Ammar...
Rights group slams Barrack naming as Syria, Iraq special envoy
Tom Barrack, Trump’s envoy for Syria and Iraqi affairs, 2025. Photo: AFP BERLIN,—The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in a...
Massoud Barzani rejects “false claims” about his militia’s arms
Tribal leader and KDP party head Massoud Barzani with his paramilitary Kurdish peshmarge forces, 2018. Photo: Barzani office/via iKurd.net. ERBIL,...
Iraqi Shiite militia Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq to hand over arms to state
From right to left: Hadi al-Amiri leader of the Shiite Badr Organisation, Qais Khazali, the founder and leader of Iranian-backed...
Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah vows to keep arms despite pressure to disarm
Iraq’s pro-Iran armed Shiite group Kataib Hezbollah, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2024. Photo: Reuters BAGHDAD,— The Iraqi Shiite pro-Iran group...
Sadr orders Saraya al-Salam militias to integrate into Iraqi state
Iraqi populist Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr, 2022. Photo: AFP BAGHDAD,— Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Wednesday that he...
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