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سبتمبر 1, 2026

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العراق يحكم على خاطف الصحفية الأمريكية شيلي كيتلسون بالسجن 15 عاماً: ما يجب معرفته

يأتي أول حكم يتعلق باختطاف شيلي كيتلسون في الوقت الذي تتحرك فيه العراق لكبح جماح الميليشيات المدعومة من إيران.

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العراق يستدعي مبعوثاً إيرانياً على خلفية منشور "الخليج العربي"، وأصول تسمية بغداد: ما يجب معرفته

وتأتي هذه الخطوة وسط تصاعد التوترات في المنطقة، بما في ذلك التوترات المتعلقة بمضيق هرمز، الذي يربط الخليج العربي المثير للجدل بالبحر العربي.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi delivers a speech in Baghdad, May 16, 2026.

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يستعد العراقي زيدي لخوض أول مباراة أوروبية له مع ماكرون في فرنسا

من المتوقع أن يوقع رئيس الوزراء العراقي عدة مذكرات تفاهم مع فرنسا خلال اجتماعه مع ماكرون في 14 سبتمبر، حيث تسعى بغداد إلى تنويع علاقاتها الدبلوماسية والأمنية.

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Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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تراجعت أسعار النفط مع ترقب التجار لفرض "أشد العقوبات الاقتصادية" على إيران

ينتظر التجار تفاصيل حول الإجراءات الأمريكية الجديدة التي من المؤكد أنها ستزيد من اضطراب تدفقات النفط الإيراني.

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يضاعف زيدي، رئيس الوزراء العراقي، جهوده في نزع سلاح الميليشيات، مما يعزز صادرات النفط.

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يدعو بارزاني إلى تعزيز الدفاع الجوي لإقليم كردستان لمواجهة هجمات الطائرات المسيرة

Masrour Barzani, Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, gives a press conference in the autonomous region's capital Arbil on June 25, 2025.

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Masrour Barzani

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السعودية تريد "إقالة" رؤوس الميليشيات المدعومة من إيران في العراق وسط محادثات مع طهران

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Amberin Zaman

بواسطة Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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يسعى العراق للحصول على تصريح خاص من إيران للوصول إلى مضيق هرمز في محاولة للحفاظ على تدفق النفط.

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Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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

بارزاني في بغداد .. منفذ امل في ازمة مستحكمة

مصطفى الكاظمي كتب عن زيارة رئيس اقليم كوردستان العراق الى بغداد والاتفاق بين المركزوالاقليم على حل الخلافات.

A girl works in a brick factory in the town of Nahrawan, east of Baghdad, March 8, 2012. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags : - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR2Z0ZC

عمال العراق من دون قانون يضمن حقوقهم

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