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Saudi Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Iraqi Shi’ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia July 30, 2017. (Reuters)

Moqtada al-Sadr: We don’t Want Two Armies in Iraq

by Sa'ed Al-Abyadh | Aug 11, 2017 | Interviews

Jeddah – Moqtada al-Sadr, the leader of Iraq’s Sadrist movement, underlined the importance to integrate government forces with the fighters of the Popular Mobilization Forces under the leadership of the prime minister and the commander of the armed forces,...

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President of Iraq and a veteran Kurdish politician Fuad Masum. AFP

Iraqi President: ‘Kurdistan’s Referendum Does Not Mean Independence’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 2, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad- Iraqi President Fuad Masum said Tuesday that a planned referendum on the proposed secession of the northern Kurdish region from Iraq does not amount to a “declaration of independence.” “Holding a referendum based on mutual understanding does not amount to a...

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An Iraqi special forces soldier waves an Iraqi flag from top of a church damaged by ISIS militants in Bartella, east of Mosul, Iraq, October 21. 2016. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Liberation of Mosul, Return of Iraq

by Ghassan Charbel | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion

The state of ISIS was not expected to live long. Neither Iraq can bear a cancerous tumor of this kind, nor the Kurdistan region can accept such a dangerous neighbor. The countries of the region cannot be lenient towards it. The world cannot tolerate it. Al-Baghdadi’s...

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Abadi arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday as part of his official three-day foreign tour. (SPA)

King Salman, Abadi Discuss Bilateral Ties, Regional Developments

by Nayef al-Rasheed and Aharq Al-Awsat | Jun 20, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Mecca- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman discussed with Iraqi Prime Minister Dr. Haider al-Abadi at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah bilateral ties and regional developments. Adviser in the Council of Ministers Ihsan al-Shammari said in a phone call with...

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Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud Barzani speaks during an interview with Reuters in Erbil, about 350 km (220 miles) north of Baghdad November 30, 2011. (photo by REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

Barzani Stresses ‘Referendum is for Independence’

by Saeed Abdelrazek | Jun 17, 2017 | Middle East

Ankara, Arbil – The president of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, has stressed that he informed Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi that the independence referendum which he has called for “is a normal, legal right of our people.” “Afterwards we want...