Iraq

A Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighter rides in a military vehicle at the Iraqi-Syrian border near al-Qaim, Iraq, November 26, 2018. Picture taken November 26, 2018. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani - RC13847779F0

How US-Iran tensions could disrupt Iraq’s fragile peace

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Iraqi soldiers stand guard near an election poster featuring pictures of Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (L), and slain clerics Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim (C) and Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf December 6, 2005. Iraqis will go to the polls December 15 to elect their first full, four-year parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish - RP2DSFIILWAB

Iraq’s failed uprising after the 1979 Iranian revolution

Monday, March 11, 2019

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein addresses the eigth anniversary of the Great Victory Day August 8. In his address marking the ceasefire in the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, Saddam rejected Western government accusations that he had spent a fortune on building palaces for himself while his people enjured poverty. He made no mention of his country's oil-for-food deal with the U.N. whose implementation the U.S. approved on Wednesday. - PBEAHUMWIBM

What Iran’s revolution meant for Iraq

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Barham Salih, Iraq's newly elected president, walks with Iraq's new Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi at the parliament headquarters, in Baghdad, Iraq October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily - RC14461FCEC0

Can Iraq’s new leadership win (and keep) the peace?

Friday, November 23, 2018

Photo from the event: "The limits of punishment: Transitional justice and violent extremism"

Terrorists next door? Experts discuss how to respond when communities are overtaken by terrorist groups

Bradley S. Porter

Thursday, October 25, 2018

An Iraqi works at a car repair shop east of Mosul, Iraq April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem - RC1B5D9D6CE0

Do social protection programs improve life satisfaction? Lessons from Iraq

Talajeh Livani and Carol Graham

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

A woman casts her vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election, in Aley, Lebanon, May 6, 2018. REUTERS/ Jamal Saidi - RC1D4073C030

Elections in Lebanon and Iraq offer a glimmer of hope—how the US should prepare for the long term

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Employees of the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission check electronic counting device at a warehouse in Dohuk, Iraq May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - RC1B40CD3970

What Iraq’s election results mean for U.S. policy there

Friday, May 18, 2018

An Iraqi woman arrives to cast her vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in the Sadr city district of Baghdad, Iraq May 12, 2018. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC18D4CCE020

What Iraq’s election means for its Shiite militias

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington

Mohammed bin Salman, son of the Iraq War

Shibley Telhami

Wednesday, March 21, 2018