Why Lobbying is Not Always the Answer
During discussions with well-educated and professional Iraqis I keep hearing that the cause of...
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How we got to the Kurdish referendum and what it means for Abadi & Barzani
Iraqi Security Forces with the support of the international coalition and cooperation with the...
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PM Abadi, Don’t Abandon Assyrians in the Nineveh Plains
(Locals of Alqosh protest removal of town mayor. August 19, 2017) The Assyrian towns of Alqosh and...
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Yazidi PMU Fighters Face Uncertainty in the KRG
Lalish Battalion, Yazidi PMU Iraq’s Yazidi community remains deeply traumatized by the genocide...
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“Nujaifi, Erdogan, and Abadi All Walk Into a Bar…”
In Ankara’s pursuit of greater influence in Kirkuk and Mosul, Turkish support has inflated a...
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Reform Policies and Reality Tests
Many countries often go through different types of political, security, economic or social crises...
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Can Iraqi Campuses Remain Politics Free During Election Season?
Over the past six weeks, two incidents involving politicians visiting Iraqi university campuses...
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Do Iraqis Need to Reconcile with the Sunni Sheikhs of Amman?
Ever since ISIS stormed Mosul in the summer 2014 and swept across swathes of Iraqi towns and...
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Democracy and the Iraqi Collective
It has been a long journey, full of pain and sacrifice, but Iraqi forces are on the precipice of...
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The Geneva Conference: Last Stand for Exiled Sunnis
Iraqi Sunni politicians gathered in Switzerland last week for yet another conference that was...
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