Tag Archives: Iraq

Between two fires. It’s an old Kurdish saying — and it’s how many Kurds living in the semi-autonomous region they inhabit in northern Iraq describe their current circumstances as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran threatens to pull them in. Camps housing exiled Iranian Kurdish rebels who have enjoyed sanctuary in …

Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the United States in the Middle East, Iraq is one of the most overlooked, at least outside the region.  But U.S. reaction to the reappearance on the political scene of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki — a candidate for the job …

Powerful Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his loyalists in the government zone to withdraw after nearly 24 hours of fierce clashes with security forces and paramilitary groups. In a televised speech Tuesday, al-Sadr gave his supporters, hundreds of whom stormed the government palace and have been holding an ongoing …