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Al-Iraqiya ends parliament boycott, a new split?

With “Iraqiya List” deci­sion to back to the par­lia­ment and still boy­cotting the Govt, it seems that Ayad Allawi’s Coali­tion decided to go to the par­lia­men­tary oppo­si­tion. This deci­sion will be announced within the com­ing days, but the List will … Con­tinue read­ing

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A threat of a Sunni-Kurdish confederation or a test balloon?

Another Turkish-Iraqi ties hec­tic day as Iraq sum­moned the Turk­ish ambas­sador to express unease over Turkey’s poli­cies towards Iraq, while Ankara and Irbil become closer as Turkey’s most senior diplo­mat held unan­nounced meet­ing with Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kur­dis­tan … Con­tinue read­ing

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The future political fragmentation of the Sunnis in Iraq

The US ended the mil­i­tary occu­pa­tion of Iraq but its diplo­matic and eco­nomic influ­ence still present, casts its con­se­quences on the future of Iraqi pol­i­tics. In this regard we will see that the com­ing days will wit­ness a polit­i­cal rearrange­ment … Con­tinue read­ing

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Muslim Brotherhood and the root of the recent crisis in Iraq

With the recent rise of the Islamists (the Global Mus­lim Broth­er­hood) “pop­u­lar­ity” in the Arab coun­tries sup­ported by the West, Iraqi Sunni Islamists are dou­ble mar­gin­alised First– by the Shi­ite gov­ern­ment. Sec­ond — by the sec­u­lar lead­er­ship of Al-Iraqiya List. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Qaeda flag in Syria

After the Span­ish News­pa­per ABC revealed the The Libyan NATO-Rebel are air­lifted to the Syr­ian bor­der in Yebel Zawi (Zawiya Moun­tain). Aljazeera tried to hide the facts report­ing a video of a mil­i­tary oper­a­tion against the Syr­ian reg­u­lar army in … Con­tinue read­ing

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The war of the press conferences

The cur­rent Iraqi cri­sis started bad and turned ugly, but there is one thing I should say: Even a peace­ful solu­tion means many changes in the future polit­i­cal map of Iraq .. in a later post, I will explain why … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq crisis is part of the regional conflict and a blow to the Saudi Arabia — Turkey plan

In his critic to West­ern ana­lysts and experts in Arab affairs who try to research each Arab coun­try as a sep­a­rate case away from its nat­ural regional and Arab envi­ron­ment, Iraqi writer Tariq Al-Dulaimi said the fol­low­ing in his arti­cle … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq: arrest warrant for vice-president Al-Hashimi a golden chance for the Kurds

The CIA chief David Petraeus to attend Al-Iraqiya meet­ing yes­ter­day makes you won­der about the US role in the cur­rent unrest in Iraq or even in the bomb­ing and assas­si­na­tions. The cri­sis started with the arrest of the body­guards of … Con­tinue read­ing

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The beginning of the end of the US sponsored “Iraq State” project

The pace of exchang­ing accu­sa­tions among Iraqi polit­i­cal par­ties started to esca­late since the US mil­i­tary with­drawal began, Mut­laq called PM Malikia “Dic­ta­tor” and gov­ern­ment accused Vice-president Hashimi with plan­ning to assas­si­nate the PM. There is some­thing going on behind … Con­tinue read­ing

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US still putting pressure on Iraq to sanction Syria

For many Iraqi politi­cians and coali­tion lead­ers, prob­a­bly this is the last time they will see, meet and talk to the US Vice Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden, who came with his 9 points demands, and each one is more dan­ger­ous than … Con­tinue read­ing

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