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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...
Iraq in the World Dis(Order)
On April 9, 2003 — 20 years ago sharp — Baghdad fell. Arabs, Persians, Mongols, Turks, Ottomans, Safavids, British and Americans had history of...
Iraq’s Geopolitics, Key Factor for US, EU Energy Security Strategies
Twenty years after the US-led coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, which resulted in the overthrow of the Baath regime and the formation of...