A Power Struggle in Iraq Intensifies, Raising Fears of New Violence NY Times 7 hours ago IraqFollowers of the Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr set up a tent city to blockade Parliament, paralyzing any progress toward forming a new...
Disillusioned Iraqis see feuding political camps ‘in another world’ The Arab Weekly 2 days ago IraqAnalyst Lahib Higel from the International Crisis Group said the demonstrations were “less a people’s revolution than an intra-elite...
Biden Signs Bill to Help Veterans Who Were Exposed to Toxic Burn Pits NY Times 6 days ago IraqPresident Biden, who has long advocated the expanded benefits, has speculated that his son Beau developed brain cancer because of exposure to...
In Iraq, rival Shia sit-ins deepen political deadlock The Arab Weekly 4 days ago IraqThe opposing encampments are the latest turn in a standoff between Iraq’s rival Shia blocs which has so far remained peaceful in the war-scarred...
‘Inhumane detention’: doctors for Australian jailed in Iraq warn Albanese government of his dire health The Guardian 1 week ago Iraq‘I fear that Australia will in short time be repatriated with the corpse of Mr [Robert] Pether’, say doctors of imprisoned engineer.
Christopher Meyer, Vocal British Envoy to the U.S., Dies at 78 NY Times 1 week ago IraqHe served loyally during the 9/11 attacks and Iraq invasion. But in a 2005 memoir, he faulted the “conception and execution” of the...
USA: NYPD ordered to hand over documents detailing surveillance of Black Lives Matter protests following lawsuit Amnesty International 2 weeks ago Algeria