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أغسطس 3, 2026

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani in Damascus, Aug. 3, 2026. IKRPresident/X

اجتماع رئيس كردستان العراق مع شارة الرئيس السوري يشير إلى تحول في ديناميكيات قوات سوريا الديمقراطية.

أكد لقاء رئيس حكومة إقليم كردستان نيجيرفان بارزاني مع الرئيس السوري أحمد الشرع على الدور المتنامي لإقليم كردستان في السياسة الكردية في سوريا.

Mourners carry one of the bodies of members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) who were killed earlier in Diyala in central Iraq by US-Saudi strikes, during the funeral in Baghdad on July 29, 2026. The US-Saudi strikes killed at least 20 militants, including Iranians, according to the Hashed al-Shaabi. The US and Saudi Arabia said the strikes were in response to attacks on US forces and Saudi oil facilities. (Photo by murtadha ridha / AFP via Getty Images) /

Analysis

تُختبر الهجمات المتجددة في العراق جهود الزيدي لنزع سلاح الميليشيات المدعومة من إيران.

واجهت محاولة القوات الحكومية العراقية للاستيلاء على أسلحة تابعة لفصيل مدعوم من إيران مقاومة، مما أثار تساؤلات حول تعهد رئيس الوزراء علي زيدي بنزع سلاح الميليشيات بحلول 30 سبتمبر.

Mustafa Salim

بواسطة Mustafa Salim

Fighters lift flags of Iraq and paramilitary groups, including al-Nujaba and Kataib Hezbollah, during a funeral in Baghdad for five militants killed a day earlier in a US strike in northern Iraq, on Dec. 4, 2023.

Analysis

تسعى الميليشيات المرتبطة بإيران إلى جر العراق إلى حرب إقليمية

"منطق إيران هو منطق الحرب"، هكذا صرح مسؤول إقليمي خليجي لموقع "المونيتور".

Week in Review

بواسطة Week in Review

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets Iraq Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi upon his arrival in Ankara, July 28, 2026.

Explainer

استضاف أردوغان زيدي، وأشاد بـ"الخطوة التاريخية" في العلاقات التركية العراقية في مجال الطاقة.

حدد الرئيس التركي أولويات أنقرة مع الحكومة العراقية الجديدة خلال الزيارة الأولى للزعيم العراقي إلى تركيا: الأمن، والتعاون في مجال الطاقة، وطريق التنمية.

Latest News

من المقرر أن يلتقي زيدي العراقي بأردوغان التركي مع انطلاق العلاقات، بينما يشعر الأكراد بالتهميش.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi speaks during a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (not pictured) at the Pentagon on July 14, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.

العراق يعزز علاقاته مع إيران بعد أيام من حملة استثمار أمريكية

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Analysis

ماذا تعني زيارة زيدي إلى واشنطن بالنسبة للاستثمار الأمريكي في العراق؟

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister of Iraq Ali al-Zaidi during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, July 14, 2026.

Adam Lucente

بواسطة Adam Lucente

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change

شركتا شيفرون وكونوكو فيليبس تدعمان بدائل مضيق هرمز في العراق.

Hussein FALEH / AFP via Getty Images

آمبرین زمان

Chief Correspondent

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre L) attends a meeting with Iraqi heads of parliamentary blocs at the parliament house in Baghdad, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3B9XR

الأحزاب العراقيّة تخوض انتخابات 2014 من دون قانون ينظّم عملها

يبدو أن الانتخبات التشريعيّة العراقيّة المقرّرة في العام 2014، سوف تجرى على الأرجح وقانون الأحزاب المؤجّل منذ سنوات لم يقرّ بعد.

Iraq's Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi (R) meets with Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani (L) in Baghdad, July 7, 2013. Barzani visited Baghdad on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in a symbolic step to resolve disputes between the central government and the autonomous region over land and oil. The visit follows an equally rare trip by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who met Barzani in Kurdistan last month, breaking ice between leaders who have repeatedly accused each other of vi

المعارضة تحتجّ على التمديد لبارزاني.. وأعضاء من حزبه أيضاً

معارضة شديدة داخل إقليم كردستان العراق لقرار تمديد ولاية بارزاني.

Female members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi with a drum and flags shout slogans as they rally at the Rabaa Adawiya square, where they are camping at, in Cairo July 11, 2013. Political infighting threatened to stall Egypt's transition plans on Thursday, as the military cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood leaders it blames for inciting a clash in Cairo in which troops shot and killed 53 protesters. Monday's violence between supporters of Mursi, Egypt's fi

التيارات الإسلاميّة في كردستان العراق تعبّر عن قلقها بعد الإطاحة بمرسي

A customer shops for clothes at a clothing store in Baghdad's Karrada district August 14, 2012. Iraq relies on imports from neighbours like Syria, Turkey and Iran for 95 percent of its consumer goods. Syria in particular is a key supplier of manufactured goods, fresh vegetables and fruit. But as an uprising there against President Bashar al-Assad grinds through its 17th month, the supply of Syrian goods to Iraq is slowly drying up as Syrian businesses are forced to close and trucks struggle to cross borders

العراق يستعدّ لتطبيق التعرفة الجمركيّة.. وسط تنازع الصلاحيات بين بغداد وإربيل

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

ضغط مدني يجبر البرلمان العراقي على وقف تشريعات تحاصر الحريّات

البرلمان العراقي يوقف تشريع قانونَين مثيرَين للجدل بعد ضغوط مدنيّة.

Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout anti-army slogans during a protest in Cairo July 9, 2013. Egypt's interim President Adli Mansour on Tuesday named liberal economist and former finance minister Hazem el-Beblawi as prime minister in a transitional government, as the authorities sought to steer the country to new parliamentary and presidential elections. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX11HY6

الشارعان العراقي والإيراني يختلفان في ردود فعلهما تجاه سقوط الإخوان في مصر

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) shakes hands with Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani (L) in Baghdad, July 7, 2013. Barzani visited Baghdad on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in a symbolic step to resolve disputes between the central government and the autonomous region over land and oil. The visit follows an equally rare trip by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who met Barzani in Kurdistan last month, breaking ice between leaders who have repeatedly accused each other of vi

لحظة 30 يونيو المصريّة.. قراءات عراقيّة مبتورة

لحظة 30 يونيو المصريّة تمّت قرائتها عراقياً بشكل مبتور سواء من قبل الأطراف التي أيّدت التغيير المصري أو تلك التي عارضتها.

A resident walks past election campaign posters on Baghdad's Saadoun street January 3, 2009. The January 31 local election will apportion 440 seats on local councils that in turn name powerful regional governors. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ) - RTR230LK

قانون المحافظات العراقي يدعم الدولة اللامركزيّة

Goldsmith shops are seen in a market in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad March 12, 2012. Gunmen often carry out lethal robbery attacks on goldsmith shops mostly in Baghdad, with the latest heist on a gold market on Monday causing the death of nine people. Picture taken March 12, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: CRIME LAW BUSINESS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2ZBBG

العراقيّون يخزّنون الذهب بدلاً من العملة الصعبة

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) attends the International Islamic Conference for the Convergence and Dialogue in Baghdad April 27, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) - RTXZ1ML

العراق: تشريع مجموعة من القوانين في صفقة سياسيّة واحدة

كتب علي عبد السادة عن سلة القوانين المتوقفة في البرلمان العراق لحاجتها الى توافق بين الكتل السياسية العراقية.

A worker adjusts a pipe at the Nassiriya oilfield in Nassiriya, 300km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad,September 8, 2012. Production from Iraq's southern oilfields is at 2.5 million barrels per day as the country edges closer to becoming the world's biggest source of new supplies over the next few years, a senior Iraqi oil official said. Picture taken September 8, 2012. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS) - RTR37U0U

قانون ادارة المحافظات يتيح للحكومات المحلية المشاركة في ادارة ثرواتها النفطية

Kasbana Hassan gestures inside her burnt out house, where four Egyptian Shi'ites were killed, in the suburb of Zawiyat Abu Musallem, on the outskirts of Cairo, June 24, 2013. Egypt's government promised "exemplary punishment" on Monday after the mob killing of four Shi'ite Muslims near Cairo raised fears of wider sectarian bloodshed at a time of grave national crisis. In Sunday's violence in the suburb of Zawiyat Abu Musallem, in sight of the Giza pyramids, a crowd ransacked and torched the house of a famil

مواقف وردود فعل حوزة النجف وقم تجاه مجزرة الشيعة في مصر