Initially described as protests over the economy, they have become a call for revolution.

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In today’s Iraq, there are plenty of Saddams and plenty of Ba’athist-like parties that enjoy an agreed balance of power.

For Iraqi youth, the demands for social justice and economic redistribution cannot be separated from the claim for...

Is it 2003 all over again – but with Iran and Iraq on the same side this time?

As the Trump administration weighs war, Iraqis prepare a carnival for peace

The US is trying to create a Middle Eastern coalition to undermine Iran. They are sixteen years too late.

It remains to be seen whether this so called ‘new Iraq’ is as post-sectarian as some academics and journalists claim.

Iraqis are suffocated by a rampant militarization and hypermasculinity.

Iraq must take urgent and significant actions to provide better protection for the Yezidi women and girls and make...

So long as the ethno-sectarian quota exists, a political class that serves foreign interests will continue to...

Quality education from the outset can eradicate corruption, guarantee peaceful coexistence, and bring about social...

The west's failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, says our columnist who predicted both, is above all one of understanding.

In the absence of civil war, the people of Iraq have found an opportunity to demand that the political elite deliver...

While Iraq is experiencing its fourth week of mass protests, it is essential to understand not only their direct...

The ramifications from Iraq’s elections do not mean we will witness a better Iraq, but it will certainly differ from...

After years of funding being pumped to Iraq’s NGO sector based on US military needs, local civil society is...

The recent Windrush migration scandal poignantly illustrated the tensions between people’s sense of belonging to a...

The interests of outsiders, not those of the battered, bloodied and belittled peoples of Iraq and Syria, drive this...

Islamic radical groups, such as the Islamic State, seem to have become the substitute for a failed regional order...

The gassing of people is considered exceptionally inhumane, officially a categorical “red line” dividing good from...