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    Kurdistan and the consequences of the possible isolation by Biden’s administration

             In recent months, Iraqi Kurdistan, like other points in Iraq, has become a scene of the proxy conflicts between Tehran and Washington. Rocket strikes and explosive Drones attacks on Erbil’s airport and even downtown Erbil will have negative effects on the stability and political role of the region....

    The Afghan scene… Reading in motives and implications… and possible lessons

    For a Syrian or Iraqi spectator, what is happening in Afghanistan seems like a normal event, compared to what terrors they have seen, what terror they are living in, and there may be nothing left in this world to surprise them. But the situation is relatively different for the...

    Baghdad’s Regional Summit… Iraqi Lands and Issues of the Region

    A summit of Iraq's regional neighbors was held in Baghdad on Saturday, 2021/8/28, to discuss the region's unsolved issues and open up areas for cooperation, dialogue, and unity of efforts to resolve these pending problems in the region, in particular, the Syrian crisis and the Saudi-Iranian conflict. (Bahrain, Egypt,...

    Peace in Iraq… Reading in the World Peace Index 2021

    The subject of peace is an important and profound subject that needs to be examined widely and in-depth, as peace has a serious role to play in sustaining stability and overcoming any manifestation of violence that threatens stability in all its forms; To achieve this goal, violence must be...

    Tunisia, the Crossroads of Reform and Dictatorship

    Tunisia is the title of the cradle of the Arab Spring and the last democratic model among those countries, which succeeded in removing the army to some extent from the political equation and established a democratic parliamentary system in the post-Ben Ali era to some extent. This political system has...

    The American withdrawal from Afghanistan… The U.S. achieve its objectives

    History has events whose effects and repercussions vary between the time-limited fringe and spatially-limited fringe, on the one hand, and the spatially extended detail, on the other. Accordingly, we must place the recent American withdrawal from Afghanistan in the second category of events that are expected to have an...

    Iraq in Fragile States Index 2021

    The Fragile States Index (FSI) is an annual classification of 178 States based on the various pressures they face affecting their levels of vulnerability and relies on the analytical approach of the Conflict Assessment System tool. The Peace Fund's (CAST), based on the comprehensive social science methodology, identifies three...

    Pragmatic and confrontational strategies

    From 1975 to 1980, Iraq went through its best phase in its contemporary history in terms of political stability, economic stability, and doubling of its national capacity. This phase crystallized in the pragmatic process of Iraqi political building and dealing with Iran in resolving conflicts, particularly after accepting the...

    Challenges to counter drugs in Iraq Hard Solutions

    More than 194 million people around the world are addicted to drugs, andabout 40 million people are addicted to (khat), mostly in Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya, the drugs crisis does not stop on its direct effects on addicts and their families, but rather on societies and States....

    October election… What if it runs on incomplete terms?

    The government is working with determination to hold elections by the deadline of 10 October 2021, as a basic commitment, and the President of the Republic publicly supports this trend through multiple statements, and some political forces have already started campaigning. The question now is, what if the elections are...