by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 18, 2017 | Middle East
Riyadh, Baghdad, Irbil- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz briefed the Cabinet Tuesday on a telephone conversation he held with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during which the King stressed Riyadh’s support for Iraq’s...
by Michel Abu Najm and Said Abdul Razzak | Oct 6, 2017 | Middle East
Paris, Ankara — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi confirmed on Thursday that he does not want an armed confrontation with the Kurds in relation to the crisis of the referendum on independence held in the Kurdistan region on Sept. 25. Meanwhile, Turkish President...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 2, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut- A deal reached between Lebanon’s “Hezbollah” and ISIS to transfer militants from east Lebanon and Qalamoun to west Syria at the Iraqi border was seemingly disrupted on Friday after the Iraqi government headed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 12, 2016 | Middle East
The Prime Minister of the Iraqi government Haider Al-Abadi yesterday held talks with the US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter who arrived in the Iraqi capital yesterday. They discussed the progress of military operations against ISIS in Mosul and the latest...
by Amir Taheri | May 6, 2016 | Opinion
If the current turmoil in the Iraqi capital Baghdad contains any message, it is that the majority of Iraqis are quite fed up with the status quo. Their grievance isn’t limited to any one aspect of the nation’s life, being the difficulties of day-to-day survival or the...
