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FILE PHOTO: Kurdish Peshmerga forces celebrate Newroz Day, a festival marking spring and the new year, in Kirkuk March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed/File Photo

Too Much Democracy may Damage your Health!

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Sep 28, 2017 | Opinion

One quote widespread in the Arab region, a few decades ago, was that it was facing the danger of ‘partitioning what has been already partitioned. Those days, several Arab capitals were run by leaders who cover their tribalism and sectarianism by claiming to be...

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An Iraqi man crosses a street past security forces during clashes in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, on October 10, 2015 (AFP)

Autumn of the Iraqi Map

by Ghassan Charbel | Sep 4, 2017 | Opinion

On the way from Erbil to Kirkuk, strange feelings haunted me. For the first time in my life, I wish I were a foreign correspondent, who writes with neutrality and sangfroid and looks for a stark title for his article. When he leaves the country, he turns the page and...

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ISIS militants (Photo: AFP)

ISIS Members from Iraq, Syria Tell their Stories

by Ghassan Charbel | Aug 31, 2017 | Middle East

Erbil- I had a strange sensation while I was sitting in the counter-terrorism headquarters in Erbil, amidst hundreds of ISIS men distributed in the prison chambers and cells. In the morning I discussed with Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani the future...

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Iraq’s Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, December 19, 2015. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Iraqi Parliament Impeaches Minister of Defense

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 26, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad- Iraq’s parliament impeached Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi on Thursday over corruption allegations, removing him from office as the army gears up for an assault on ISIS’ Iraq stronghold of Mosul. Two lawmakers said parliament voted 142-102 to withdraw...

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From R-L, Nuri Al-Maliki, Midhat Al-Mahmoud, Osama Al-Nujaifi and Iyad Allawi are seen during a swearing-in ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, September 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq: Maliki, Nujaifi say PM’s decision to cancel vice president posts “unconstitutional”

by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 1, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Two of Iraq’s three outgoing vice presidents say Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi’s decision to cancel their posts is unconstitutional. In exclusive comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Osama Al-Nujaifi, one of the three vice president post-holders,...