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العراق

يوليو 4, 2026

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An aerial view shows port of the western Syrian port city of Latakia, on Dec. 18, 2024.

Analysis

هل يمكن أن يصبح الممر السوري العراقي المدعوم من الإمارات العربية المتحدة طريق التجارة التالي في الخليج؟

في 26 يونيو، ناقش مسؤولون إماراتيون وسوريون خططاً لإنشاء ممر لوجستي يربط الموانئ السورية بأسواق الخليج عبر العراق.

بواسطة Jack Dutton

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP via Getty Images

إليكم ما يجب معرفته عن الفساد في العراق مع شنّ الزيدي حملة قمعية.

تعتبر هيئات الرقابة والمؤسسات المالية العراق دولة فاسدة بشكل كبير، في الوقت الذي يعمل فيه رئيس الوزراء الجديد على استعادة الأموال العامة.

aqi security personnel patrol in a vehicle along a street in Baghdad on June 28, 2026.

Analysis

تأتي حملة رئيس الوزراء العراقي لمكافحة الفساد في ظل تصاعد الضغوط الأمريكية على الميليشيات المدعومة من إيران.

أطلق رئيس الوزراء العراقي الجديد حملة واسعة النطاق لمكافحة الفساد قبل محادثات رئيسية في واشنطن، لكن المحللين يقولون إن الاختبار الحقيقي سيكون ما إذا كانت هذه الحملة ستصل إلى أقوى الجهات الفاعلة المدعومة من إيران في العراق.

Amberin Zaman

بواسطة Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A worker at a market for fuel oil and automotive fuel on March 17, 2026, in Erbil, Iraq.

Explainer

بعد الإمارات وقطر، هل يمكن أن يكون العراق هو التالي الذي ينسحب من منظمة أوبك؟

يسعى العراق إلى الحصول على حصة إنتاج أعلى، حيث أدى الإغلاق الفعلي لمضيق هرمز إلى انخفاض عائدات النفط وإغراق البلاد في أزمة مالية.

Latest News

العراق يعين كريكور دير هاغوبيان كأول سفير مسيحي أرمني لدى الولايات المتحدة

Krikor Der-Hagopian at the 9th Sulaimani Forum, in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, on April 16, 2025.

Culture

انطلاق كأس العالم وسط نزاعات حول التأشيرات لإيران والعراق والصومال

Members of the Iranian national soccer team including midfielder Alireza Jahanbakhsh (R) arrive at Tijuana International Airport on June 7, 2026, in Tijuana, Mexico.

سوريا تقول إن شحنات النفط العراقي تشهد ارتفاعاً ملحوظاً مع سعي دمشق لجذب استثمارات الطاقة الأجنبية

A long convoys of Iraqi diesel-laden tanker trucks line up along the highway Tartus-Baniyas highway as they wait to unload their cargo at the Baniyas port refinery on the Mediterranean Sea, on April 15, 2026.

تصعيد إسرائيل وإيران يوقف الرحلات الجوية عبر أجزاء من الشرق الأوسط

An Airbus A321 airliner arrives at the Mehrabad international airport during the delivery of the first batch of planes to the Iranian state airline Iran Air in the capital Tehran on Jaunary 12, 2017. - The aircraft arrived as part of an order for 100 other Airbus planes with a list price of around $20 billion (19 billion euros) on December 22, placed after the lifting of international sanctions on the Islamic republic. It will be used for internal flights landed at Tehran's Mehrabad airport. (Photo by ATTA

آمبرین زمان

Chief Correspondent

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A worker adjusts a pipe at the Nassiriya oilfield in Nassiriya, 300km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad,September 8, 2012. Production from Iraq's southern oilfields is at 2.5 million barrels per day as the country edges closer to becoming the world's biggest source of new supplies over the next few years, a senior Iraqi oil official said. Picture taken September 8, 2012. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS) - RTR37U0U

قانون ادارة المحافظات يتيح للحكومات المحلية المشاركة في ادارة ثرواتها النفطية

Kasbana Hassan gestures inside her burnt out house, where four Egyptian Shi'ites were killed, in the suburb of Zawiyat Abu Musallem, on the outskirts of Cairo, June 24, 2013. Egypt's government promised "exemplary punishment" on Monday after the mob killing of four Shi'ite Muslims near Cairo raised fears of wider sectarian bloodshed at a time of grave national crisis. In Sunday's violence in the suburb of Zawiyat Abu Musallem, in sight of the Giza pyramids, a crowd ransacked and torched the house of a famil

مواقف وردود فعل حوزة النجف وقم تجاه مجزرة الشيعة في مصر

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.