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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.

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

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

IN SPACE - MARCH 31: This portion of a NASA handout satellite image of Baghdad, Iraq shows black smoke emanating from "hot spots" circled in red March 31, 2003. According to NASA the black plumes of smoke and there associated thermal anomalies or "hot spots," indicate that they are possibly oil fires. (Photo by NASA/MODIS/Getty Images)

العراق يخطط لإطلاق قمر صناعي نهاية العام الجاري

عمر الشاهر يتحدث عن جهود العراق لاطلاق قمر صناعي نهاية العام لمراقبة التصحر.

A view of a destroyed makeshift camp at a public square in Hawija, near Kirkuk, 170 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad April 23, 2013. Iraqi forces stormed the Sunni Muslim protest camp on Tuesday, and more than 50 people were killed in the ensuing clashes which spread beyond the town of Hawija, to other areas. Picture taken April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS) - RTXYZEU

احداث "الحويجة" تغلق 10 قنوات تلفزيونية .. في غياب رواية محايدة

A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier sits atop an armored vehicle during a deployment of Kurdish Peshmerga troops on the outskirts of Kirkuk, some 250km (155 miles) north of Baghdad December 3, 2012. Iraq's Kurdish region has sent reinforcements to a disputed area where its troops are involved in a standoff with the Iraqi army, a senior Kurdish military official said, despite calls on both sides for dialogue to calm the situation. Picture taken December 3, 2012. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CI

اكراد العراق يرسلون قواتهم الى اطراف كركوك، ويثيرون حفيظة بغداد

Children walk by a machine-gun near election centre 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. Iraqi politics are deeply split along sectarian lines with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government mired in crisis over how to share power among Shi'ites, Sunni Muslims and ethnic Kurds who run their own autonomous region in the north. Violence

شيخ وهابي يدعو "جهاديي" العراق إلى قتل أطفال الشيعة ونسائهم

Sunni Muslims take part in an anti-government demonstration in Falluja, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad April 26, 2013. Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims poured onto the streets of Ramadi and Falluja in the western province of Anbar following Friday prayers, in protest at the perceived marginalisation of their sect since the U.S.-led invasion overthrew Saddam Hussein and empowered majority Shi'ites through the ballot box. REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTXZ11Y

شرارة العنف الطائفي تستعر بعد اقتحام الجيش الحويجة .. برغم جهود التهدئة

Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud Barzani speaks in a meeting with Kurdish envoys abroad in Arbil, about 350 km (220 miles) north of Baghdad September 6, 2011. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2QV60

اقليم كردستان العراق: صيف سياسي اكثر سخونة وبارزاني يواجه منافسة قاسية

Electoral workers tally ballots after the end of voting in a polling station in Baghdad, July 25, 2009. Iraqi Kurds voted on Saturday in elections expected to keep President Masoud Barzani in power in Kurdistan and unlikely to allay voters' worries about corruption or end a feud with Baghdad over land and oil. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ ELECTIONS POLITICS ENERGY) - RTR261N3

الاحزاب الصغيرة في اقليم كردستان العراق قلقة من النظام الانتخابي الجديد

A view of a row of closed shops during a nationwide strike in Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad, April 22, 2013. Iraqis in Sunni provinces boycotted government offices, closed shops and deserted universities on Monday in the latest protests by the minority sect which fears it is being marginalised by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.Streets in the Sunni-majority provinces of Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin were mostly empty after people shuttered their shops or stayed away from work in what prote

الأنبار ونينوى تبدآن عصيانا مدنيا.. وسنة بغداد وديالى يصومون تضامنا

Employees of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) take part in vote counting at an analysis center in Baghdad April 23, 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. Election officials said including results from a special vote a week earlier for members of the armed forces, total participation would be more than 51 percent. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS E

الانتخابات العراقية : ماذا بعد ؟

An employee of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) sits on ballot boxes at a tally center in Baghdad April 23, 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. Election officials said including results from a special vote a week earlier for members of the armed forces, total participation would be more than 51 percent. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

الانتخابات المحلية في العراق .. إقبال متوسط وأخطاء تقنية

Employees of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) take part in vote counting at an analysis center in Baghdad April 23, 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. Election officials said including results from a special vote a week earlier for members of the armed forces, total participation would be more than 51 percent. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS E

الفائزون والخاسرون في الانتخابات العراقية

A Kurdish boy walks in the village of Sheladiz near the Iraqi-Turkish borders February 27, 2008. Picture taken February 27, 2008. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz (IRAQ) - RTR1XP6H

اقليم كردستان العراق: جهود لاصدار قانون يحمي حقوق الاطفال