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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters monitor the area from their front line position in Bashiqa, a town 13 kilometres north-east of Mosul on August 16, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Recapture of Mosul key to defeating ISIS: Iraqi commander

by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 18, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is boosting its presence in Iraq’s restive Al-Anbar province in a bid to turn Baghdad’s attention away from the liberation of Mosul, a senior Iraqi military commander said on Wednesday. The senior...

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Fuad Masoum, the new president of Iraq and a veteran Kurdish politician, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad on July 24, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / ALI AL-SAADI)

Iraqi president announces steps towards national reconciliation

by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 17, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi President Fuad Massoum reaffirmed his intention to push forward a process of national political reconciliation on Tuesday, following a meeting with the UN Special Envoy to Iraq Nikolay Mladenov. “[The Iraqi government] is seeking to take...

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An image posted on a militant website shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of ISIS, (L), next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq’s Anbar Province. (AP Photo via militant website, File)

ISIS regaining ground in western Iraq: local officials

by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 13, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters have recaptured several villages near Anbar governorate, local officials and tribal figures told Asharq Al-Awsat. Despite recently suffering setbacks in western Iraq, the Islamist group has...

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, then chief of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Suleimani, attends a meeting of the commanders of the Revolutionary Guard with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Baghdad cannot stop Suleimani from entering Iraq: MP

by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 10, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani is able to freely enter and exit Iraq despite being under an international travel ban, a member of Iraq’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee alleged on...

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Tribal fighters carry their weapons as they take part in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in the town of Amiriyah Fallujah, in Anbar province, on October 31, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Anti-ISIS fighters in Iraq say they are running out of ammunition

by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 8, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat— Tribal fighters battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for control of the disputed city of Hit in Iraq’s western Anbar province warned on Sunday that they were running critically short of ammunition. “The arms and ammunition that...