The Trump-MBS alliance could shore up Iraq’s corrupt ruling families in return for keeping US troops in the country.
In the streets of Baghdad, Iraqis battle a corrupt political class, war, poverty, and now a pandemic that has ravaged an ailing health sector.
With domestic violence reaching alarming levels in Iraq during the pandemic, can the Iraqi government do the right thing?
If we want to see societies win the peace we need a concept of victory that is about justice and reconciliation, inclusion and equality.
The coronavirus is above all a fight against the corrupt state and the social inequalities produced by it.
Are religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic?
Mapping the conflict and its casualties can change our understanding of this war and any war.
High-tech warfare is not defeating the US’s many enemies any better than its vast army did – and that leaves the country making bizarre alliances.
Iraq’s uprising is unmasking all the sectarian leaders attempting to ride the revolutionary wave.
Trump’s assassination of Qessim Soleimani follows a policy of international lawlessness that has been supported by all US parties and presidents since 9/11. Any European response must address this fundamental fact.
How is Soleimani’s demise likely to alter Iran’s policy options?
