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العراق

أبريل 7, 2026

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A police speed boat patrols the port as oil tankers and high speed crafts sit anchored at Muscat Anchorage near the Strait of Hormuz on March 30, 2026 in Muscat, Oman.

Analysis

هل يستطيع الخليج، وهو رهينة لمضيق هرمز، إعادة توجيه تدفقات الطاقة المستقبلية لتجاوز نقطة الاختناق الإيرانية؟

في ظل تسبب الحرب بين الولايات المتحدة وإسرائيل وإيران في تعطيل ما يقرب من 20% من إمدادات النفط العالمية، يشير الخبراء إلى الفرص والتحديات التي تواجه الجهود المتجددة لتطوير بدائل لمضيق هرمز.

Samuel Wendel

بواسطة Samuel Wendel

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

A member of the Popular Mobilization Forces patrols along a concrete wall at the Iraqi-Syrian border in Al-Qaim, west of Iraq, on Jan. 23, 2026.

أعادت سوريا فتح معبر رئيسي بعد 11 عاماً، مما ساعد صادرات النفط العراقية وسط الحرب

أبدت العراق وسوريا رغبة في التعاون بشأن صادرات النفط، وقد أصبحت المسألة أكثر إلحاحاً بسبب الاضطرابات في مضيق هرمز.

US journalist Shelly Kittleson poses for a picture in Baghdad on March 31, 2026.

كشف اختطاف شيلي كيتلسون على يد ميليشيا يُشتبه في دعمها من إيران عن ضعف الحكومة العراقية

يسلط اختطاف الصحفية الأمريكية شيلي كيتلسون الضوء على النفوذ الهائل للجماعات المسلحة المتحالفة مع إيران والتي تعمل خارج سيطرة بغداد.

Members of the Popular Mobilization Units stand guard along the Iraqi-Syrian border in Al-Qaim, west of Iraq, on Jan. 23, 2026.

سوريا تقاوم هجوماً بطائرات مسيرة من العراق، وتتصدى لأنفاق التهريب على الحدود اللبنانية

وتأتي هذه الحوادث على حدود سوريا في أعقاب تهديدات وجهتها إيران ووكلائها في العراق للحكومة الانتقالية.

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قد تواجه دول الخليج الغنية بالنفط أزمة في الطاقة مع تضرر أمن الطاقة جراء الحرب الإيرانية.

A general view of South Pars gas field facilities in the southern Iranian port town of Assaluyeh, on the Gulf, Nov. 19, 2015.

Samuel Wendel

بواسطة Samuel Wendel

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

Analysis

يُسهم تخزين الطاقة في استقرار تركيا، لكن الحرب الطويلة تُهدد اقتصادها الهش.

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Barin Kayaoglu

بواسطة Barin Kayaoglu

In Ankara, reporting on geopolitics and national security

أكدت تركيا سحب قواتها من العراق مع انسحاب حلف الناتو بسبب الحرب مع إيران

A handing over of command ceremony at Union III Camp in the Green Zone of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on May 22, 2025.

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أول ضربة إيرانية على القوات الكردية العراقية منذ بدء الحرب بمثابة تحذير لحلفاء الولايات المتحدة

An Iranian Kurdish peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran inspects the damage sustained at the Azadi Camp following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye, east of Erbil district, on March 3, 2026.

Amberin Zaman

بواسطة Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

آمبرین زمان

Chief Correspondent

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

"البيشمركة" الكرديّة: لا نهاجم الجماعات المسلّحة في العراق

هجرة العراقيّين تزداد بعد سقوط الموصل

Smoke rises from a oil refinery in Baiji, north of Baghdad, in this picture taken through the windscreen of a car, June 19, 2014. Iraqi government forces battled Sunni rebels for control of the country's biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for a U.S. response to an appeal for air strikes to beat back the threat to Baghdad. Secretary of State John Kerry said President Barack Obama still had "all options" open to him but U.S. regional allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia echoed conc

الإستثمارات اللبنانية في العراق أمام تحديات التطورات الأمنية الأخيرة

إسرائيل تدرس ثمن التصعيد في غزّة

يتكبّد سكّان غزّة تكاليف الحرب؛ تدرس إسرائيل خياراتها مع حماس؛ يجري "المونيتور" مقابلات مع زعماء سياسيّين عراقيّين؛ الحرب المنسيّة في سوريا.

Christian families, who fled from the violence in Mosul, gather at a building which was used as a social club in Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region June 26, 2014. Iraqi forces launched an airborne assault on rebel-held Tikrit on Thursday with commandos flown into a stadium in helicopters, at least one of which crashed after taking fire from insurgents who have seized northern cities. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR3VXHK

الأقليّات العراقيّة تضيع في صراعات الطوائف الكبرى

The President of Iraqi Kurdistan Massoud Barzani (C) visits Kirkuk June 26, 2014. Barzani visited Kirkuk on Thursday for the first time since forces from the autonomous region took full control of the city. Kurdish forces moved into bases deserted by the Iraqi army two weeks ago in Kirkuk, which lies just outside the formal boundary of the northern region and is a centre of Iraq's oil industry. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR3VY11

مسعود بارزاني : نعمل على انقاذ العراق .. واذا فشلنا سنتجه الى تقرير المصير

Masked Sunni gunmen pray during a patrol outside the city of Falluja April 23, 2014. Government forces are fighting rebellious Sunni tribes and an al-Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in western Anbar province. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR3MDCC

العودة إلى الفلّوجة... قلعة "داعش" أم قبرها؟

A general view of the presidential palace is seen during a farewell ceremony for Outgoing Lebanese President Michel Sleiman in Baabda, near Beirut, May 24, 2014.
REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3QNB0

اللبنانيّون: إنّها نهاية العالم!

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - FEBRUARY 23 : An Iraqi Shiite man carries a picture of Iraq's powerful Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as he takes part in a protest against the bombing of a Shiite holy shrine on February 23, 2006 in the Karradah district in Baghdad, Iraq. Protests against the bombing of the Askariya golden dome Shiite holy shrine continue in Baghdad and other Shiite cities around the country for the second day. The Askariya golden-dome shrine, which hosts the tombs of Imam Ali al-Hadi and

السيستاني يضع خطوط حمراء على مرشحي رئاسة الحكومة

قد وضع السيستاني خطوطاً حمراء بخصوص مرشحي رئاسة الوزراء وطالب بالاسراع بتشكيل الحكومة قبل الموعد المقرر في الشهر القادم.

Militant Islamist fighters travel in a vehicle as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. The fighters held the parade to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighbouring Iraq, a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot previously known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), posted pictures online on Sunday of people waving black flags from cars and holding

"البعث" يصف "داعش" بـ"الإرهابيّ"... لكنّه لن يقاتله!

A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. There had previously been reports on social media that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would make his first public appearance since his Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) changed its name to the Islamic S

نوستولوجيا الخلافة الإسلامية .. هل أصبحت واقع؟

Shiite volunteers from Hezbollah Iraq, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), gather together in Baghdad, July 6, 2014. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition should withdraw its support for his bid for a third term and pick another candidate, Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged, amid parliamentary deadlock over the formation of a new government. Maliki has come under mounting pressur

هل أرسل حزب الله مقاتليه إلى العراق لحماية المقامات الدينية؟