by Dalshad Abdullah | Aug 6, 2016 | Middle East
Erbil-ISIS executed a number of residents while trying to flee the organization’s controlled town of Hawijah in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Iraqi official and security sources said on Friday. ISIS had detained thousands of civilians who were fleeing the town,...
by Hamza Mustafa | Oct 3, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Iraqi Ministry of Defense has confirmed reports that one of its helicopters was shot down in clashes with insurgents who attacked a military base in Bayji, north of Baghdad, on Wednesday. A media adviser for the defense ministry, Lt. Gen....
by Osman Mirghani | May 11, 2013 | Opinion
Today, the situation in Iraq is reminiscent of the events that led to a virtual civil war in 2006—at least in the opinion of former US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, who published an article in the Washington Post a few days ago. Regardless of the extent to which...
by Khalid Mahmoud | May 5, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Tensions continued to escalate in Iraq yesterday even after the embattled Baghdad government welcomed the appointment of an official representative to negotiate on behalf of the protesters. In the city of central city of Samarra, Sheikh...
by Ma'ad Fayad | May 1, 2013 | Features
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The struggle in Iraq between the government of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and the largely Sunni protesters occupying town and city squares across the country has been kept out of the headlines by the war in Syria. This has not been changed...
