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Efforts to resolve a slow-burning maritime boundary dispute between Iraq and Kuwait hit a dead end last month. Renewed political differences over Khor Abdullah, a narrow corridor with shared...
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Theatre as an act of re-imagining and storytelling is an approach displayed masterfully in the new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production A Museum in Baghdad. In conversation with MEMO,...
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The Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC) held its annual Spring Conference in London on 10 April entitled ‘Iraq – Financing a Modern Economy’, hosting officials from the UK and Iraqi Government and delegates from the major companies operating in Iraq
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'Drop BP. Drop BP'
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Iraq's southern city of Basra — the "Venice of the East" — is on high alert. Citizens in their thousands have been admitted to hospital with undiagnosed illnesses after...
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Prominent Iraqi human rights activist Jabbar Abdul Karim Bahadli, famous for defending the rights of wrongfully convicted protesters and activists, was assassinated early on Monday by unknown assailants in...
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Decades of pent-up grievances blew up, as predicted, across Iraq's oil-rich south. Motivated by the government's unfulfilled reform agenda, a brewing electricity crisis and obscene summer heat, protesters took...
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The wanton destruction of life in Iraq has extended into the country's southern hinterland where state developers are bulldozing date palm groves for commercial development purposes. In the last...
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America's imperial seizure of Baghdad fifteen years ago altered Iraq's military landscape irrevocably. As "liberation" morphed into occupation, US-issued decrees promising reform dismantled Iraq's security institutions. Undermining their own...
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Sarah Idan, Miss Iraq 2017, is the newest voice in the chorus of advocates calling for coexistence between Israel and Palestine. Speaking before international and Israeli officials at the...
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Generals from Syria, Iran and Russia convened at the joint-intel centre (JIC) inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone last week to discuss matters of national security and cooperation. The meeting...
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Daily reminders of Iraq's tragic state of affairs are brought up across online spaces daily. The trending video of a dishdasha-clad Iraqi citizen, wading through what is left of...
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Celebrations that lit up Baghdad's Liberation Square on the eve of the country's parliamentary elections on 12 May have faded, replaced by the embers of old and new constitutional...
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Throughout the nine months from the beginning of military operations to liberate Iraq's north-western province in October 2016, thousands of men, women and children, as well as fighters, perished....
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Iraqi populist leader Muqtada Al-Sadr's climb to fame has eclipsed the predictions of his inevitable demise heard over the past decade. Once described as an afterthought in the celebrated...
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Twenty-four hours after Iraq's fourth parliamentary election concluded, global commentators and Iraqis together celebrated what they view to be "big developments". The victory sealed by the Sairoon alliance between...
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With less than 24 hours to go before Iraqis cast their votes in their country's fourth parliamentary elections, people on the street are divided on whether to take part...
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As Iraq's Election Day approaches, political campaign posters adorned by smiling candidates — secular and religious zealots alike — crowd the landscape. It seems that the masses do not...
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It was on 31 March 2004 that America's occupation of Iraq turned a year old. The date also marked the beginning of the grisliest chapter of America's unwelcome stay...
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A military incursion ordered by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the plains of Sinjar to thwart Kurdish rebels belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is stoking old...
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Fifteen years ago today America remade the Iraqi Republic in its own image but the democratic mould pressed on the country has proven incompatible with the behaviour of Baghdad's...
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Commitments that Kurdish leaders made to a new Iraq 15 years ago are unravelling quicker than they were formed as the noose of budgetary matters tightens. The newest trigger,...
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Inside Baghdad's Ibn Rushd hospital are wards populated by male patients, old and young, battling drug and substance addictions. The hospital provides recovery services, but the misery of sufferers...
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Relations between Iraq and the Russian Federation are warming visibly. That much is clear when looking back at the past eighteen months of recurrent diplomatic visits, intergovernmental conferences and...
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An unquantifiable number of Iraqi towns, villages and encampments are flooded with wastewater following three days of fierce rain storms on Valentine's Day last week. Heavy rainfall paralysed segments...
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Iraq's troubled reconstruction timeline entered a new chapter as representatives from 70 states poured into Kuwait in attendance of The International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq, the first...
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Iraq's southern province of Muthanna has been up in arms over the arrest of local celebrity dissident Basim Khazaal Khashan last Wednesday. An electrifying display of solidarity spilled onto...
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There was a time that I remember vividly in which videos of fierce gunfire exchanges within the grounds of Iraq's neutral and protected spaces would elicit shock. In the...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi dreams of securing a second term in office, but will have to joust with his predecessor Nouri Al-Maliki for the job. What binds both...
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A dazzling self-help guru, feminist and billionaire is the general view held of Oprah Winfrey worldwide. Rarely have her credentials been on trial as they were this week following...
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Wildly circulating rumours first published December last year posit the birth of a new armed Kurdish faction, dubbed, the "the bearers of White Flags" (WF). As the name suggests,...
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For the fourth consecutive day, unrest has gripped Erbil, the largest city in Iraq's semi-autonomous north. In Sulaymaniyah, protesters have been on the streets for six days, marching defiantly...