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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

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.

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آمبرین زمان

Chief Correspondent

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A view of Kahramana square in Baghdad August 31, 2010. The U.S. military formally ends combat operations in Iraq on Tuesday as President Barack Obama seeks to fulfil a promise to end the war despite persistent instability and attacks that kill dozens at a time. U.S. troop numbers were cut to 50,000 in advance of the Aug. 31 milestone in the 7-1/2-year-old war launched by Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, whose stated aim was to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons was found. REU

قرار حكومي يهدد سوق السيارات في العراق

A Shi'ite cleric stands at the shrine of Hazrat-e Massoumeh, granddaughter of Prophet Mohammad, while attending a ritual mourning for Imam Hussein as he marks Arbain in Qom, about 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran, February 16, 2009. Imam Hussein, who was Prophet Mohammad's grandson, died in a seventh century battle. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN) - RTXBP2W

اعتقال رجل الدين شيعي عراقي في إيران

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during the opening ceremony of the Defence University for Military Studies inside Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone June 17, 2012. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags : - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS EDUCATION) - RTR33R9C

المالكي وخصومه يحولون "المساءلة والعدالة" إلى كبش فداء

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

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