On the surface, Iraq appears to have achieved a measure of stability. The country finally has a functioning government after a yearlong political vacuum. Terrorist violence has fallen to ...
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Qais Khazali – Involved In
Kata’ib Hezbollah a perennial rebel against the Iraqi government
An Iraqi court this month handed down a death sentence to a former policeman who was convicted of killing prominent academic Hisham Al-Hashimi in a shooting that took place ...
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Why does Iran need 200,000 pro-Iran militiamen in Iraq?
A new report at Middle East Eye last week said that the “Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary umbrella group has doubled in size over the past two years, making it the ...
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Iran’s bid to steal Arab identity is an own goal
After decades during which Gulf Arabs rarely visited Iraq, there has been great excitement this month about Iraq hosting football’s Arabian Gulf Cup for the first time since 1979. ...
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Iraq Explosion at militia arms depot
An explosion has rocked an arms depot belonging to a faction of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), security sources have revealed. According to a report in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed citing ...
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Iran’s regional position no less satanic than the verses it opposes
Three weeks have passed since the violent attack on the renowned British writer Salman Rushdie, the author of the controversial book the Satanic Verses
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