More: Iraq
Consciously or Otherwise, the West Pushed Assyrians to Leave Their Ancestral Lands
Some argue that despite the fact that Assyrians are the indigenous people of northern Mesopotamia (northern Iraq, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey) their population...
Iran facilitates Biden’s support for Israel. Israel makes it increasingly difficult
The irony of Middle Eastern geopolitics is that Israel makes it increasingly difficult for US President Joe Biden to support it, while Iran strengthens...
Assyria And Assyrians: Story Of My People
In the first millennium BCE, ancient Mesopotamian civilization pioneered the first multinational empires in world history. The Assyrian Empire was the first of these....
Does Iraq hold the key to regional de-escalation?
Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, the Prime Minister of Iraq, was firm in his condemnation of a U.S. airstrike against a militia leader in eastern Baghdad...
Russia takes control of Iraq’s biggest oil discovery for 20 years
Preliminary estimates suggested that Iraq’s Eridu oil field holds between 7-10 billion barrels of reserves. Senior Russian oil industry sources spoken to exclusively by...
Iraqi Kurdistan: Uncertainty and How It Impacts the Geopolitics of Middle East
Over the past two decades, the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has been predominantly characterized by adversity and considerable uncertainty. An area of...
All aboard, Iraq plans to steam into a new future
Few countries in the Middle East have suffered more from conflict and worked harder for its end than Iraq.
Ravaged by war with Iran, the...
9 Years After ISIS Genocide, the Plight of Iraqi Christians Remains Ongoing
When many Westerners hear the word “Iraq” today, they may think that it has always been a majority-Muslim country. Yet, the Middle East region,...
WP: “Post-9/11 wars” have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths
The full death toll of violence in the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, let alone of the broader global war on terrorism, remains...
The Fragile Future of the Kurdish Regions in Iraq and Syria
For decades in northern Iraq, the two Kurdish parties of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of the Talabani family and the Kurdistan Democratic...