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A boycott call and security concerns mar Iraq's first provincial elections in a decade
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoBaghdad’s streets were nearly empty on Monday, the main day of polling in the country’s first...
Despite public anger, no progress in Iraq political deadlock
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWeeks after followers of an influential cleric stormed parliament, Iraq’s political crisis shows no...
How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week,...
Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Adel Amer celebrated what he thought marked the end of two decades of war and isolation under...
Opinion: Netanyahu needs an end-game
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoEditor’s Note: Seth Moulton, a Democrat, is a Marine Corps veteran who represents Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District. The views expressed in this...
Iraq court sentences 5 people to life in prison in killing of US citizen, officials say
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn Iraqi criminal court convicted five men and sentenced them to life in prison on Thursday in the killing of a U.S. citizen in Baghdad last year, officials said. Stephen Edward Troell, 45, ...
Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPowerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political...
Death of Iran's Raisi could stir race for Khamenei succession, insiders say
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIranian President Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash upsets the plans of hardliners who...
Iran officially in five days of mourning - but President Raisi's opponents celebrate his death with...
Sky News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has sparked differing reactions in Iran. While the...
Opinion: Uncomfortable reality for Biden
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoPresident Joe Biden told the nation Thursday that American leadership plays a vital role in holding the world together, in an echo of the closing days of...
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