On Thursday 20th December United States President Donald Trump announced that he ordered the withdrawal of US troops in Syria within 60 to 100 days. Despite stating in a Tweet on Wednesday 19th that the withdrawal of US forces is as a result of the defeat of ISIS in Syria’s north-east, Trump never...

On Saturday 17th November the Iraqi President Barham Salih visited Tehran as part of his wider tour of the region, which included Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. During his visit to Iran, Salih met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. During the meeting, the two presidents stres...

At the beginning of this week, reports emerged that the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) assumed control of 30 fortified positions 100 metres inside Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)-controlled territory along the Iraqi border in the southern Euphrates Valley, Deir ez-Zour Province. The PMU have report...

On Sunday 21st October, the Kurdish Independent High Electoral and Referendum Commission (IHERC) officially released the results of the Kurdish parliamentary election. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) obtained 688,070 votes, giving it a significant lead over its rivals, securing 45 seats in the ...

Last week, on Tuesday 2nd October, Iraqi lawmakers elected the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan nominee, Barham Salih, as the new President of Iraq in a second round of voting following the withdrawal of the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) nominee, Fuad Hussein. Shortly after being elected as the ...

On Wednesday, 19th September, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) announced that it has nominated Barham Salih for Iraq’s presidency. The nominee is reportedly the party’s sole candidate for the post. Asos Ali, a member of the PUK leadership council, stated that Salih was selected in a secre...

Following the chaos in Basra last week, both the Sa’iroun Alliance, which has been allied to Abadi’s Nasr Coalition, and the Fatah Coalition called on Abadi to resign as Prime Minister and to offer an apology to the Iraqi people for his “government’s failures to resolve the crisis in Basra�...

On Monday 27th of August, Basra’s Health Department announced that more than 70% of Basra districts are receiving unpurified drinking water. According to Jawad Abdul-Abbas, a member of the Basra Provincial Council, drinking water is being transported to citizens in the province in sewage tanks, wh...

On Sunday 19th of August, the Iraqi Supreme Court ratified the results of Iraq’s parliamentary elections. The results were sent by the Iraqi High Electoral Commission (IHEC) on Thursday 16th of August after more than three months spent manually recounting the initial votes released in May. Ira...

On Friday 10th August, Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced the final results of the parliamentary elections following a manual recount of a significant portion of the votes, which ended on Monday 6th August. The manual recount was conducted after widespread allegations ...