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Iraqi Politics
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...
Iraq seeks IMF, World Bank aid after Iran conflict: Reuters
International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2018. Photo: Reuters BAGHDAD,—...
Iraq’s new PM Ali al-Zaidi sworn in with partial cabinet
Iraq's new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, left, was sworn in with partial cabinet, the parliament, Baghdad, Iraq, May 14, 2026....
US sanctions Iraq’s deputy oil minister, pro-Iran militias
Iraq's deputy oil minister Ali Maarij Al-Bahadly, April 2026. Photo: Bahadly's fb WASHINGTON,— The United States imposed sanctions on Iraq’s...
US wants Iraq’s next PM to take concrete action on pro-Iran militias
Iraqi PM-designate Ali al-Zaidi, center, Sulaimani city, Iraqi Kurdistan, May 2, 2026. Photo: Channel8.com WASHINGTON,— The United States is seeking...
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