Who Are the Contenders in Iraq’s Upcoming Elections?
(Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP) Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi announced a proposed date of June...
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Iraq’s Leadership Crisis Remains Unresolved One Year After Protests Erupted
(Photo: Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters) As the first anniversary of the 2019 October Protests approaches,...
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How KRG Officials Scammed a Canadian Oil Company and British Charity for Profit
(Photo: Oryx Petroleum Facebook) The 2003 Iraq War was sharply polarizing. Even Canada, long among...
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The Response of Iraq’s Political Elite to Early Elections
(Photo: Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters) Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced a preliminary date...
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Developing Iraq Through Electoral Reform
(Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP) The iconic collapse of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square, Baghdad,...
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How the Iraqi Parties Law Enables Electoral Corruption
(Photo: Ahmad Al Rubaye/AFP) Parties require large financial and human resources to participate in...
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Is Press Freedom Respected or Oppressed in Iraqi Kurdistan?
(KRG Spokesperson. Photo: Herish Qadir/NRT Media) When Iraqi journalist and researcher Hisham...
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Iraq’s Foreign Policy Balance
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi began talks with Iranian leaders soon after he arrived in the...
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Iraq’s Newest Political Bloc and Implications for the Next Election
On 30 June 2020, the leader of the Hikma Movement, Ammar Al-Hakim, announced a new parliamentary...
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No Cheers for Iraq’s Consensus Politics
(Photo: Karim Kadim/AP) Since October 2019 hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have taken to the...
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