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أبريل 11, 2026

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"ملك العراق": لعب القاضي البارز زيدان دورًا رئيسيًا في إطلاق سراح شيلي كيتلسون

ويقول المسؤولون إن فائق زيدان استغل نفوذه لدى الميليشيات المدعومة من إيران للمساعدة في تأمين إطلاق سراح الصحفي الأمريكي، مما يؤكد قوته الهائلة في المشهد السياسي العراقي المتصدع.

Amberin Zaman

بواسطة Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

picture of Qatar Energy's operating facilities on March 3, 2026, in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.

Analysis

ما مدى سرعة تعافي إنتاج الطاقة في الخليج بعد وقف إطلاق النار بين الولايات المتحدة وإيران؟

قد يمهد الهدنة الطريق لعودة إمدادات النفط والغاز الطبيعي المسال المفقودة إلى الأسواق العالمية، لكن استعادة إنتاج الطاقة في الخليج إلى مستوياته الطبيعية قد يستغرق شهورًا، إن لم يكن أكثر.

Samuel Wendel

بواسطة Samuel Wendel

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

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.

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كشف اختطاف شيلي كيتلسون على يد ميليشيا يُشتبه في دعمها من إيران عن ضعف الحكومة العراقية

US journalist Shelly Kittleson poses for a picture in Baghdad on March 31, 2026.

سوريا تقاوم هجوماً بطائرات مسيرة من العراق، وتتصدى لأنفاق التهريب على الحدود اللبنانية

Members of the Popular Mobilization Units stand guard along the Iraqi-Syrian border in Al-Qaim, west of Iraq, on Jan. 23, 2026.

Analysis

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

آمبرین زمان

Chief Correspondent

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (C) walks with Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi (R) upon arrival at the parliament house in Baghdad, December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3B9Y3

المالكي والنجيفي يطلقان شرارة حرب الإقالات في العراق

Members of a Syrian refugees family, who fled the violence back home, are seen at the Domiz refugee camp in the northern Iraqi of province Dohuk July 25, 2012. The number of refugees that have fled to Iraq's Kurdistan region is in excess of 11,000 refugees, and they are settled in the region's three provinces: Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya. As for the Domiz refugee camp, the number of refugee families reached 696 families, equivalent to 2,800 people, but on the other side of the camp, where young refugees ar

نزوح كردي سوري جماعي باتجاه اقليم كردستان العراق يفوق توقعات الادارة الكردية

The clock tower of Qushla is seen at noon in central Baghdad April 2, 2012. Qushla, or the Ottoman government headquarters on the bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad's Rusafa side is one of the city's important archaeological sites and tourist attractions. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTR308PW

الحكومة العراقية تعيد ترميم دار الوالي العثماني

Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani speaks during 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, the region's natural resources minister Ashti Hawrami said on Sunday. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags : - Tags: ENERGY POLITICS) - RTR32CEM

اقليم كردستان العراق .. كلمة السر المفقودة

Iraq's Supreme Court chief judge Midhat al-Mahmoud holds a news conference in Baghdad June 1, 2010. Iraq's Supreme Court certified the final results of a March 7 parliamentary election on Tuesday, an important step toward the formation of a new government. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) - RTR2EMDW

العراق : رئيس السلطة القضائية يخسر منصبه بسبب قانون جديد للمحاكم

A pressman keeps watch on the print run of the first Baghdad edition of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's newspaper April 22, 2003. The printing press in the Bab al-Muadham district used to print the official al-Iraq newspaper, and also issued the last editions of Iraq's three other main official newspapers because other presses were out of action. But it has been taken over by a Kurdish group, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and will now produce a newspaper called Al-Ittihad. - RTXLWW2

اقليم كردستان العراق يواجه اتهامات بالتضييق على حرية الصحافة

Massud Barzani, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region (C-bottom) sits amidst Kurdish peshmerga security forces during a visit to the disputed north Iraq province of Kirkuk on December 10, 2012 on the outskirts of the Kirkuk. The visit may increase already-high tension with Baghdad, which has seen both sides deploy military reinforcements to areas in north Iraq. The dispute over territory in northern Iraq is the biggest threat to the country's long-term stability, diplomats and officials say. T

بارزاني يتحرك لسد فراغ طالباني في ضبط صراعات الفرقاء العراقيين

Iraqi Sunni Muslims shout slogans during an anti-government demonstration in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad,February 1, 2013. Chanting "No" to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims protested after Friday prayers in huge rallies against the Shi'ite premier that are raising the spectre of renewed sectarian unrest. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ CONFLICT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3D8BA

العراق: الفشل في اقرار الموازنة يذكر بالفشل في صرفها

Kurdish Peshmerga troops are deployed 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 CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3B6TV

"العراق : اعادة انتاج "المليشيات

Iraqi Sunni Muslims attend Friday prayers during an anti-government demonstration in Falluja, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad,February 8, 2013. Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims protested after Friday prayers in huge rallies against Shi'ite Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, demanding that he steps down. REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ CONFLICT POLITICS) - RTR3DHV6

مخاوف أمنية تدفع "السنة" العراقيين إلى تأجيل اعتصامهم في بغداد

An Iraqi couple ride a motorbike during a biker show on Abu Nawas Street in Baghdad October 19, 2012. Drag-racing in California, you say? No, this is Baghdad, where youthful rebellion and American biker style clash with conservative mores in Iraq, a country where just a few years ago militias imposed their own radical Islamic views at gunpoint. Picture taken October 19, 2012. To match Feature IRAQ-CULTURE/BIKERS REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: SOCIETY SPORT MOTORSPORT) - RTR39IOY

!حياة العراقيين مؤمنة.. لكنهم لا يعرفون

Pope Benedict XVI (R) meets in a private audience with Louis Raphael I Sako (L), the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and the Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, in Vatican February 4, 2013 in this picture provided by Osservatore Romano.
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المسيحيون متفائلون في بطريرك الكلدان الجديد لوقف نزيف الهجرة