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  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    Iraq boosts coffers by $2bn in Chinese prepaid oil deal

    Unnamed buyer locks in price while Baghdad gets short-term fiscal relief, say analysts

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    David Gardner
    Joe Biden should learn from the Arab uprising 10 years on

    Tunisia is one of the few lasting successes but the west could help empower young populations and civil society

  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    Middle Eastern economy
    Iraq devalues currency by a fifth as oil-price collapse hits

    Revenues in Opec’s second-largest crude producer have been halved by price crash

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    Eight protesters killed in renewed unrest in Iraq’s Kurdistan

    Public employees in northern provinces have not been paid for months

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    Chloe Cornish
    Iraqi translators live in terror as the west withdraws

    The interpreters who worked for UK and US forces fear they are an easy target for Iran-backed militias

  • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
    Middle East
    Iraq empties camps for the displaced as military warns on Isis

    Officials say sprawling sites could become breeding grounds for extremism

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    Special ReportArt & Culture in the Gulf
    World unites to help save Iraq’s archaeological treasures

    A network of support focuses on preventing further theft after chunk of human history was destroyed over three decades

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    US foreign policy
    US troop withdrawals ordered after Trump ousts Pentagon head

    Iraq and Afghanistan drawdown to be completed just days before Biden becomes president

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    US foreign policy
    Pentagon signals troop drawdown in Afghanistan and Iraq

    Defence officials tell commanders to prepare for withdrawal of 2,500 personnel

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    News in-depth
    Iraqi leader fights on multiple fronts as economic and security crisis deepens

    Vested interests and powerful militias leave Mustafa al-Kadhimi struggling to restore stability

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    Orange SA
    Orange launches legal proceedings against Iraq government

    French company says stake in Kurdish operator Korek was expropriated

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    David Gardner
    American threat to quit Iraq leaves its allies in the lurch

    It is strategically inept for the US to do exactly what Iran and its Arab proxies want

  • Wednesday, 9 September, 2020
    US foreign policy
    US to pull 2,000 troops out of Iraq this month

    Forces will be cut from 5,200 to 3,000 as Trump continues mission to reduce military presence

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Basra killings dash hopes that Iraq can rein in militias

    Assassinations of two activists in less than a week seen as targeted

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    Brent Scowcroft
    US foreign policy sage Brent Scowcroft dies aged 95

    Two-time White House national security adviser guided the west through the end of the Cold War

  • Monday, 20 July, 2020
    News in-depth
    Iraq warns economic woes could stoke insecurity

    Radical reform is only way to avert ‘disaster’ for oil-reliant country, says finance minister

  • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
    Iraq government adviser shot dead in Baghdad

    Murder of Hisham al-Hashemi seen as retaliation for raid on Iran-backed militias

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Iraqi forces arrest fighters from Iran-backed militia

    Country’s new PM has vowed to rein in armed groups acting outside state control

  • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
    Isis
    Isis operations increase in Iraq as coalition withdraws

    Terrorist group staged at least 566 attacks in first three months of the year

  • Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
    Global InsightChloe Cornish
    Iraq’s new prime minister faces daunting task to stabilise country

    Mustafa al-Kadhimi has to deal with domestic grievances and a proxy Iran-US war

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    Iraq’s squabbling parliament agrees new prime minister

    Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s appointment gives country its first functioning government in 6 months

  • Monday, 27 April, 2020
    News in-depthGlobal Insight
    Coronavirus deepens frustrations of young in Middle East

    Pandemic stopped protests in Iraq, Algeria and Lebanon, but crisis likely to fuel fresh wave of unrest

  • Wednesday, 8 April, 2020
    Chloe Cornish
    Scare tactics are the wrong approach in war zones

    In Iraq and Syria, citizens have been hard to persuade of the need to stay inside

  • Wednesday, 8 April, 2020
    Iraq warns over threat to public sector pay from oil price collapse

    Prime minister designate says government could be unable to pay half of the salaries of 3m-strong workforce next month

  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2020
    US foreign policy
    US to review troop presence in Iraq

    Secretary of state Mike Pompeo says strategic dialogue to determine future role will begin in June

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