By Marwan Kabalan
The arrest warrant, issued by the Interpol at the request of the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government, against Iraqi vice-president and prominent Sunni leader Tareq Al Hashemi is seen by many in the region as a recipe for a another bloody civil war in Iraq. It is also interpreted as a further demonstration of how influential Iran has become in Iraqi politics.
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By Shakir Noori,
Masoud Barzani, the Kurdish leader, is a man of few words. Over the years as Iraq lurched from one destabilising crisis to the next he remained focused on his home front, consolidating his power base and let the other veteran and more senior Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani enjoy the national limelight as president of the country.
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By Gordon Robison
As international negotiators gathered in Istanbul over the weekend for talks on Iran’s nuclear programme the diplomatic drama begged a very basic question: what do the Americans want?
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By Mohammad Akef Jamal
Osama Al Nujaifi, Iraqi Speaker of Parliament, announced during a press conference on April 4 the indefinite postponement of the national conference, which was supposed to be held the following day.
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By Mayada Al Askari
Why is Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki so keen on the Arab Summit to be held in Baghdad?” was a question I heard several times over the past few weeks.
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Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
As post-revolution Libya looks ahead, Iraq looms as a perilous example. After 42 years of dictatorship, Libya, like Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein, needs more than wishful thinking to become a vibrant democracy. It needs organised state-building in Tripoli – and realistic policymaking in Western capitals.
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By Mohammad Akef Jamal
There are many issues that cannot be overlooked in Iraq today, as they are key to the future vision of the country.
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By Mohammad Akef Jamal
Twenty-eight terrorist attacks, car bomb explosions and automatic rifle fire rocked Baghdad and other locations around Iraq recently, deepening the wounds of the country.
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Naomi Wolf
One of Iraq’s only working filmmakers, Oday Rasheed – whose brilliant film 2005 ‘Underexposure’ followed a group of characters in Baghdad after the United States-led invasion in 2003, and whose new film ‘Qarantina’ is now premiering – is in Manhattan.
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By Mohammad Akef Jamal
National unity governments are the exception and not the norm in democracies. These governments are usually formed after countries are subjected to serious security challenges that can only be addressed by overcoming disagreements between different political blocs.
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