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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.

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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

Iranian Presidential Office / AFP via Getty Images

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

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks to the media during a visit to the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION) - RTR3C3HO

الصدر لـ"السفير الاميركي" : رئيس الوزراء العراقي الجديد.. لن يتعامل مع المحتل

الصدر يرد على السفير الاميركي...رئيس الوزراء العراقي القادم لن يتعامل مع المحتل.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) speaks next to his Iraqi Kurdish counterpart Nechirvan Barzani during a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Arbil, about 350 km (220 miles) north of Baghdad June 9, 2013. Maliki visited the Kurdistan region on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in an attempt to resolve a long-running dispute over oil and land that has strained Iraq's unity to the limit. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX10H5T

"قانون تحديد ولايات الرئاسات العراقية" على طاولة "المحكمة الاتحادية منذ 5 شهور

A resident walks at the entrance of a cinema in Baghdad April 26, 2011. Iraq once had 82 cinemas, 64 of them located in the teeming capital, home to about 7 million of Iraq's 30 million people. One by one, they closed during the Saddam era, when the government controlled the selection and importation of films, until only five remained at the time of the invasion. The insurgency that followed and killed tens of thousands of people made Iraqis afraid of being in public places and crowds. They chose the relati

صالات سينما حديثة في اربيل لاستعادة الثقافة السينمائية

اربيل تفتتح 14 صالة سينما حديثة في شهر واحد بتعاون مع مختصين لبنانيين.

Members of the Iraqi special forces stand guard at a checkpoint in central Baghdad March 23, 2012. The Iraqi government has tightened security measures ahead of the Arab League summit, which is scheduled to be held in Baghdad at the end of March. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - RTR2ZRA8

تركيز جديد على حقوق الإنسان في الاجهزة الأمنية العراقية

Empty and disused Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL Group) containers are seen at Malta Freeport in the Port of Marsaxlokk outside Valletta February 10, 2012. The IRISL ships and containers are key parts in an international cat-and-mouse game: Iran's attempt to evade the trade sanctions tightening around it. Washington and European capitals want to stop or slow Iran's nuclear programme. They believe that IRISL, which moves nearly a third of Iran's exports and imports and is central to the coun

لعراق يتحول إلى "رئة اقتصادية" لإيران.. ويستقبل 75% من صادرتها

Iraqi police display drugs which were seized in the southern city of Kerbala, 100 kms (62 miles) south of Baghdad September 6, 2005. The Major Crime Unit in Kerbala arrested four men attempting to smuggle over 20 kgs (44 pounds) of cocaine, heroin and hashish into Iraq, the latest in a string of recent seizures. The heroin was hidden in bags which were labelled as Costa Rican coffee. Police put the value of the drugs at around 280 million Iraqi dinars (about $1,930,000). REUTERS/Mshatq Mohamad RCS/VP - RTR

المخدّرات تستدرج الشباب العراقي إلى سعادتها الافتراضيّة

فتيان عراقيّون يتعاطون المخدّرات، يسعون إلى "شرعنة" تهافتهم عليها عبر تسويق مبرّرات اجتماعيّة واقتصاديّة تمنع عنهم انتقادات الآخرين.

Saddam Hussein (R) stands with his guards behind him at an artillery
piece during the Iraq-Iran war in this undated file photo. The picture
is among exhibits at The Leader's Museum in Baghdad. British Prime
Minister Tony Blair published a dossier on Iraq's weapons programme on
Tuesday which claimed Saddam could launch weapons of mass destruction
at just 45 minutes' notice and was seeking to build a nuclear
capability. REUETRS/Handout

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وزارة الدفاع العراقية تطالب البيشمركة الكردية باعادة اسلحة النظام العراقي السابق

Egyptians carry the coffin of a Shi'ite victim, who was killed in sectarian violence, before funeral prayers in El Sayeda Nafisa Mosque in Cairo, June 24, 2013. Egypt's president, accused of fuelling sectarian hatred, promised swift justice on Monday for a deadly attack on minority Shi'ites as he tried to quell broader factional fighting to avoid a threatened military intervention. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION) - RTX10ZDU

"شحاتة المصري" يكشف قلقاً طائفياً عابراً للحدود

A resident jumps into water for a swim at Ahmed Awa tourist resort, known for its waterfalls, near Iraq's border with Iran where three American hikers are believed to have disappeared, near Sulaimaniyah, 260 km (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, August 5, 2009. An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday he could not confirm whether three Americans had been detained by Iran. Picture taken August 5, 2009. REUTERS/Jamal Penjweny (IRAQ CONFLICT TRAVEL) - RTR26G8J

حكومة إقليم كردستان العراق تدعم السكان مادياً لتطوير قطاع السياحة

Nawshirwan Mustafa, an Iraqi Kurdish Politician and the head of Kurdish "Change" opposition movement, shows his ink-stained finger after voting in Sulaimaniya, 260 km (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad March 7, 2010. Explosions killed 24 people as Iraqis voted on Sunday in an election that Sunni Islamist militants have vowed to disrupt, in one of many challenges to efforts to stabilise Iraq before U.S. troops leave. REUTERS/Jamal Penjweny (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR2BBPU

اتهامات متبادلة بين قوى إقليم كردستان العراق مع اقتراب موعد الانتخابات

تتبادل الأطراف السياسيّة في إقليم كردستان العراق الاتهامات مع اقتراب موعد الانتخابات.

Former Iraqi premier and head of the secular Iraqiya coalition, Iyad Allawi (R) holds a joint news conference with Qusay al Suhail, a top figure of the al-Sadr block (L) in Baghdad, August 17, 2010. Allawi said on Tuesday his Sunni-backed Iraqiya alliance would intensify talks with an anti-American Shi'ite movement to try to break a political stalemate. Iraq has been in a political deadlock since a March 7 election which produced no outright winner, raising tensions ahead of an end to U.S. combat operations

أزمة استجواب وزير مقرّب من المالكي تطيح بنائب رئيس البرلمان

جدال داخل البرلمان العراقي حول استجواب وزير التعليم العراقي، يطيح بنائب رئيس البرلمان المقرّب من الزعيم الشيعي مقتدى الصدر.

An Iraqi man casts his vote at a polling station in Baghdad April 20, 2013. Iraqis voted for provincial councils on Saturday in their first ballot since U.S. troops left the country, a key measure of political strength before parliamentary elections next year. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTXYT1T

جدال سياسي في العراق حول رواتب النوّاب المتقاعدين

جدال في العراق حول رواتب تقاعد البرلمانيّين ومطالبات بإلغائها.