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KDP and PUK: Outdated Political Party Model
After the establishment of the Kurdistan Region's de facto state in 1991, and following the 1992 parliamentary and governmental elections in the Kurdistan Region,...
The Political distrust in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
The Kurdistan Region is living in a deep crisis of distrust, which is reflected in the lack of trust in the administrative, political and...
Iraq’s “Development Road”: Rough Terrain Ahead
Meeting in Baghdad on April 22, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia‘ al-Sudani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the latter making his first visit...
Turkey’s Foreign Policy Activism in the Middle East – Strategic Partnership with Iraq
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a roll, highlighting Turkey’s (Türkiye) standpoint and increasing initiative in regional affairs, at a crucial time for...
Why the Kurdistan Democratic Party boycotting the upcoming elections?
Holding elections in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been a recurrent problem since the establishment of the Kurdistan Region in 1991. The elections...
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...