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العراق

أبريل 8, 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

Iraqi Christians on a spiritual pilgrimage to the birthplace of biblical patriarch Abraham visit the ruins of Ur, southern Nassiriya province, about 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, November 22, 2013. About 150 Christians from the southern Iraqi city of Basra took part in the pilgrimage to the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, revered as the birthplace of Abraham. Picture taken November 22, 2013. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION TRAVEL) - RTX15SNW

الطوائف المسيحية في العراق وصعوبة الحفاظ على اللغة والتراث

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JUNE 6: Dr. Ali Bayrakdar, a plastic surgeon at the Al Wasity Hospital , performs an operation on June 6, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq. Bayrakdar is a specialist in reconstructive surgery and has done some pioneering work in his field. He and his team deal primarily with wounds sustained through the ongoing violence in Iraq and perform under severely strained conditions with inadequate medical facilities. An average doctor in his position can expect to earn around $350 to $400 a month. Bayrakdar'

فتاة العراق.. أقنعة مزيّفة لجمال حقيقي

Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, waits for a meeting of the Iraqi National Council to recommence in Baghdad. Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, waits for a meeting of the Iraqi National Council to recommence in Baghdad September 4, 2004. An Iraqi Islamist group has said it tried to assassinate Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi this week and that four men died in the attack, Al Jazeera television said on Saturday. REUTERS/Samir Mizban/Pool - RTR9YVG

الجلبي لـ المونيتور" : تأجيل الانتخابات يفقد الحكومة شرعيتها ويمنعها من استغلال اموال العراق

Painted eggs and dried flowers decorate doorway in the Lalish temple
some 50 km north of Mosul, May 11, 2003. The Yezidi religion, seen by
its followers as the original Kurdish faith, is believed to date back
several thousand years and blends ideas from sources as diverse as
Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
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أسبوع الوئام بين الأديان في العراق

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (C) takes part in Friday prayers participated by Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim worshippers in a gesture of unity at the Abdul Qadir Gilani Mosque in Baghdad January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION) - RTR3C3HZ

عتزال الصدر ... "الاحباط" ابرز عناوينه

Residents walk past an election poster promoting Nada al-Sudani (R) and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition, in Baghdad February 12, 2010. Nada al-Sudani will be running as a candidate of the State of Law party during the March 7 parliamentary poll. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR2A4ZB

العراق : صور في كل مكان تستعيد "القائد البطل" و"رجل الدين المقدس"

A mass wedding organised by the government takes place in Baghdad
October 15, 2001. Many Iraqis opt for a mass marriage due to economic
restrictions. REUTERS/ Faleh Kheiber REUTERS

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زواج القاصِرات بالعراق.. اخبار "جديدة" عن إرث اجتماعي "قديم"

A resident buys a newspaper from a kiosk in Baghdad February 23, 2009. A boom in local media since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 has given Iraqis a choice between some 200 print outlets, 60 radio stations and 30 TV channels in Arabic, Turkmen, Syriac and two Kurdish dialects. Yet most media outlets remain dominated by sectarian and party patrons who use them for their own ends, and have yet to become commercially sustainable enterprises let alone watchdogs keeping government under scrutiny, the favoured Wes

الإعلام العراقي بين الحقيقة والسلطة

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad January 12, 2014. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki threatened on Sunday to cut central government funding for Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region if the Kurds pursued a drive to pipe oil exports to Turkey without Baghdad's approval. The Kurdistan Regional Government said last week that crude had begun to flow to Turkey and exports were expected to start at the end of this month and then rise in February and March. T

قرار الولاية الثالثة بيد التحالف الوطني

A worker from the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) checks boxes containing ballots during vote counting at an analysis centre in Basra, 420 km (261 miles) southeast of Baghdad April 21, 2013. Voter participation in Iraq's provincial election on Saturday was 50 percent of eligible voters, the country's electoral authorities said after poll stations closed. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTXYUKT

الانتخابات العراقية وتحدي النزاهة والاستقلالية

A Sunni Muslim fighter looks at a burning police vehicle during clashes in Ramadi January 2, 2014. Sunni Muslim fighters clashed on Thursday with Iraqi troops trying to regain control of two western cities, in a serious escalation of their confrontation with the Shi'ite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Tension has been running high in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar since Iraqi police broke up a Sunni protest camp on Monday, leaving at least 13 people dead. REUTERS/Ali al-Mashhadani (

العودة الى الجذر السياسي لازمة الانبار

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif (L) and Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari attend a joint news conference in Baghdad January 14, 2014. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX17DOX

شراء السلاح الايراني .. هل يصب في مصلحة العراق؟