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  • Iraq, Saudi Arabia discuss ways to boost relations

    Iraqi President, Abdul Latif Rashid, met with Saudi Ambassador, Abdulaziz Al-Shammari, in the capital, Baghdad, on Tuesday to discuss ways of strengthening relations between the two countries, Anadolu News Agency reports. A statement by Abdul Latif's office said the Iraqi leader underlined the depth of relations between Baghdad and Riyadh and the need to bolster them to serve the interests of the two countries and serve regional stability.

  • Almost a decade after IS blitz, Iraq’s Shiite Turkmens still suffer

    There are an estimated 2.5M to 3M Turkmens in Iraq, making them the third-largest ethnic group after Arabs and Kurds, split evenly between Shiite and Sunni populations. They are distributed mainly in the country’s north, with Tal Afar considered the largest Turkmen center. Most members of the community are influenced by the customs, heritage, language, and traditions of other Turkic peoples.

  • Saudi Arabia backs Iraq’s ability to rise and shape its future

    Prince Faisal made his remarks during the Kingdom’s speech at the Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership in Amman on Tuesday. He said: “The Kingdom affirms its stand with Iraq to maintain its stability, preserve its sovereignty, support its development efforts, restore its historical status as a land of civilization, and advance it to a new stage.”

  • Islamic State claims bomb attack on Iraqi police near Kirkuk

    Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing at least nine Iraqi federal policemen on Sunday in a bomb attack on their convoy near the oil city of Kirkuk, the militant group said on its Telegram channel.

  • The Paradox of Centralization and State Fracture in Iraq

    Decentralizing power would have been the best way of avoiding a return to Saddam-era authoritarianism and corruption, but Baghdad has favored centralization instead—while simultaneously fissuring the state through sectarian patronage and competition.

  • Will Saudi investment pledges in Iraq overcome barriers?

    Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MbS) announced in October that Iraq was one of five countries for which the Saudi Public Investment Fund had established regional companies to ease the investing process, adding to one previously established in Egypt. Planned Saudi investments in the projects are expected to amount to 90B SAR (24B USD) and will target multiple strategic sectors—including infrastructure, real estate, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and technology.

  • ‘Heist of the century’: how $2.5bn was plundered from Iraqi state funds

    Mystery surrounds embezzlement of tax revenues, which appears to have been facilitated by some of the highest offices in the country

  • With Iraq’s Quota System, the New Government is More of the Same

    The inefficiencies and corruption rife in Iraq’s ethno-sectarian quota system are substantial, but the country’s highly fragmented society has deeply entrenched the system in ways that make it difficult to reform.

  • Turkish air strikes target Kurdish militants in Syria, Iraq after bomb attack

    Turkish war planes carried out air strikes on Kurdish militant bases in northern Syria and northern Iraq on Sunday, destroying 89 targets, Turkey's defence ministry said, in retaliation for a bomb attack in Istanbul that killed six people one week ago. The strikes targeted bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Turkey says is a wing of the PKK, the ministry added in a statement.

  • Is rare killing of US citizen tied to battle over Iraq’s top spy agency?

    A shadowy Shiite armed group has claimed responsibility for the rare assassination of an American citizen in Baghdad. Given the perpetrator’s apparent links with Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq, which is maneuvering to lead Iraq’s main intelligence and security agencies, speculations have emerged of grander political objectives being at play. Of further note, the assassination has been followed by reported Israeli airstrikes along the Iraq-Syria border.