There was mounting tension in Iraq over the weekend as the Baghdad government reported arresting over a dozen members of a powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia. It is the first time that the Shia-led Iraqi government has taken steps to reduce the growing power of these [...]
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Taylor Adam on the WP explains in detail what is happening in Iraq between the US and Iran and why Iraq is important to the whole region. Tensions between the United States and Iran have increased throughout 2019, but on New Year's Eve, they took on a surge that saw the US embassy [...]
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About 1.000 Islamic State fighters have returned to Iraq in recent months and are waging a low-level uprising that threatens to destabilize rural areas and could be the harbinger of a new war, an expert warned. Thousands of fighters belonging to the Islamic State - also known as the Islamic State of Iraq [...]
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According to two separate investigations, the weapons provided by the United States and other Western nations to the Saudi and Emirati governments end up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked Sunni militias in Yemen. The weapons are supplied to the armed forces of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by the West, with the understanding that they will be used in the war [...]
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The Shiite militias that fought in the war against the Islamic State are now "committed to mafia-like activities" in the former strongholds of the Islamic State. Iraqi Sunnis fear another Islamic uprising, according to an article published in the Washington Post. In 2014, the rapid rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - ISIS, in [...]
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Yemeni militias backed by Saudi Arabia, the United States and the UAE would be paying al-Qaeda's allied factions to refrain from fighting and recruiting al-Qaeda members to fight Shia rebels. Since 2015, when the civil war broke out in Yemen, the United States, together with its Arab allies, the Emirates [...]
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Iraq goes to vote. Five months after declaring victory over the caliphate, Iraq returns to the polls. Forecasts see the Shiites winning, even if divided, the Kurds in difficulty while the Sunnis paralyzed. It is the fourth time that the country has gone to the polls, since the regime of Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003 [...]
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The unicameral parliament of Iraq, concluded the first reading of the budget law for 2018. The local sources, stating that the measure will be back in court on January 31 next year. Today's session was boycotted by Kurdish and Sunni deputies, who contest the distribution of resources among the various Iraqi governorates envisaged by [...]
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With regard to what is reported by the General Sports Authority, Saudi Arabia from next year will allow women to participate in sporting events in three selected stadiums for the first time. From what the Saudi State News Agency declared late yesterday, the stadiums of Jeddah, Dammam and Riyadh are [...]
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Harsh fighting is underway in northern Iraq just hours after the launch of the ground military offensive to free the Tal Afar district, west of Mosul, from the yoke of the Islamic State. Through the "Amaq" news agency, the self-styled "caliphate" claims to have destroyed a Humvee and a Cougar Mrap of the Popular Mobilization Units (Pmu, [...]
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