International aid must be contingent on the county's adopting a new system of government in which seats and positions aren't apportioned to religious factions.
The March 17 nomination of Adnan al-Zurfi as Iraq’s prime minister-designate highlights the extent to which Iran’s stranglehold on Iraqi politics could be eroding. As such, Zurfi’s nomination holds...
Under pressure from pro-Iranian factions, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is backing away from his...
This week, Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced a political alliance with Hadi al-Amiri, leader of a pro-Iran c...
Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani visited Baghdad las...
A bomb blast near the city of Manbij in northern Syria...
In January, with an eye toward national elections on May 12, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi stunned many observers when he ...
On March 3, the Iraqi Parliament adopted...
Deadly attacks by the Islamic State are calling into question Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s declaration...
This week, the Iraqi parliament...
I rarely find myself thinking along similar lines as fellow Foreign Policy contributor Stephen Walt. Nevertheless, just as I was contemplating an article that would take note of a few o...
You have to hand it to them. U.S. officials nailed it. Prior to the Sept. 25 independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, they couldn’t have been clearer in setting out the parade of horribles that m...
The Al-Arabiya satellite station published an Iraqi government...
With Iraq’s political crisis worsening as chaos erupted in parliament on Wednesday over Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi plan to reshuffle his cabinet and combat corruption, The Cipher Br...
I've been highly critical of President Barack Obama’s tenure as America’s commander in chief. But his shortcomings in this regard hardly came as a shock. Start your presidency wi...
In the eyes of former CIA director James Woolsey, Russian President Vladimir Putin is like the farmer Abraham Lincoln once recalled, who said he wasn’t greedy for land, he only wanted what...
ISIS is reportedly marching on key Iraqi city of Ramadi—upending the momentum that the U.S.-led military coalition seemed to have just days ago, and threatening to shatter an already delica...
Co-authored by Daniel R. DePetris Iraq had a miserable 2014. The Islamic State (IS) reentered the country in large numbers early in the year, routing the Iraqi security forces i...
The Wall Street Journal’s Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee...
President Obama has made clear that the purpose of his limited intervention in Iraq is to shore up the central government in Bagh...