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العراق

أغسطس 4, 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

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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

A show of hands takes place during the first session of the Iraqi Kurdish parliament in the northern Kurdish capital of Arbil, 350 kms from Baghdad, on September 08, 2009. A new parliament and president for autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region was voted into place on July 25th with the first full session taking place today. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

اتفاق بين أحزاب إقليم كردستان العراق على تعديلات قانون حقّ الحصول على المعلومة

(L-R) Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (ISCI), Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Kurdish regional President Masoud Barzani and Iraq's Shi'ite Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi attend a meeting in Baghdad November 9, 2010. REUTERS/Iraqi Government/Handout (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RTX

بغداد وإربيل تنهيان المقاطعة.. والأزمات بانتظار حلول عمليّة

Iraqi Muslim worshippers pray during a joint Sunni-Shi'ite Friday prayer at the Martyrs Monument in Baghdad May 24, 2013. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has called to establish unified Friday prayers between Sunnis and Shi'ites in Baghdad, after attacks on Sunni and Shi'ite mosques in recent weeks. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION CIVIL UNREST) - RTXZZ1S

المجلس العراقي لحوار الاديان: محاولة جريئة لحماية الأقليات

Laboratory equipment and chemicals are seen on display during a news conference at the Defence Ministry in Baghdad June 1, 2013. The materials were confiscated from four men who have been arrested, and are accused of planning to make chemical weapons like nerve and mustard gas, according to the ministry. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW) - RTX10825

هل يملك تنظيم القاعدة في العراق سلاحاً كيماوياً؟

Iraqi students throw their hats duriing their graduation ceremony at Technical University of Baghdad on June 30, 2012 to celebrate receiving their degrees for the first time since the US-led war on Iraq in 2003. The ceremonies were officially stopped by authorities due to the security issues after several attacks and explosions took place at the university since the ousting of former president, Saddam Hussein in 2003. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/GettyImages

الجامعة الاميركية في السليمانية تخرج دفعة جديدة من طلبة ينتمون الى مدن عراقية مختلفة

Syrian trucks are parked near the gate at the Rabia border crossing, the main border post between Iraq and Syria, July 24, 2012. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS) - RTR359VB

استهداف شاحنات سوريّة غرب العراق يطرح أسئلة حول مستوى التبادل التجاري بين البلدين

عمر الشاهر/ هجوم مسلح على رتل شاحنات سورية متوجهة من بغداد الى سورية يثير الاسئلة عن مستوى التبادل التجاري بين البلدين والذي تراجع بشكل حاد مع اندلاع الاحداث في سوريا.

Iraqis clean up outside a bakery after a bomb exploded on a bus nearby in Baghdad?s Shiite Sadr City district on May 28, 2013. Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed 16 people, many of them security forces members, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that authorities are struggling to contain. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI (Photo credit should read ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images)

مخاوف من تصاعد الهجمات الدامية في بغداد.. بالتزامن مع مناسبة شيعيّة

A man smokes a cigarette as he sits at the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, March 29, 2013. Car bombs hit four Shi'ite mosques in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and another in Kirkuk just after prayers on Friday, tearing into crowds of worshippers and killing 17, police and witnesses said. Sunni Islamists linked to al Qaeda's Iraqi wing have stepped up attacks this year and often target Shi'ite sites in a growing sectarian confrontation a decade after the U.S.-led invasion. R

القاعدة تسعى إلى توريط السنّة في العراق

Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, May 30, 2013. A car bomb and several roadside blasts exploded in Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim neighbourhoods across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 10 people in the latest in more than a month-long surge in attacks, police and hospital sources said. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST) - RTX105RO

العزف على وتر "الحرب الأهليّة" في العراق

Kuridish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (R), Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz (C) and Kurdistan Regional Government Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami attend the first International Energy Arena in Arbil, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, May 20, 2012. Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region expects to start exporting oil from its fields along a new pipeline to the Turkish border when the line is complete in August 2013, Hawrami said on Sunday. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags : - Tags:

خلافات بين محامي إقليم كردستان العراق بعد إقرار قانون يسمح للمحامين الأجانب بمزاولة المهنة

Iraqis inspect the damage following fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City August 7, 2006. Two people were killed and 18 wounded when U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a suspected death squad in the mostly Shi'ite area of Sadr City in east Baghdad, a police source said. The U.S. military said they were targeting suspected members of a punishment and torture cell. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ) - RTR1G607

هل عادت "فرق الموت" إلى شوارع بغداد؟

$BAGHDAD, IRAQ - MARCH 13: A horse and cart make their way through the Bab al Sharji market, March 13, 2013 in Baghdad, Iraq. Ten years after the regime of Saddam Hussein was toppled from power, Baghdad continues to show the scars of the war. In vast areas, infrastructure is fractured and basic services are lacking, however, some areas of the capital are showing promising signs of recovery. (Photo by Ali Arkady/Metrography/Getty Images)$

الحديث عن الحرب الأهليّة يصيب حركة بغداد التجاريّة بالشلل