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Deputy Assistant to the US President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk reaffirmed the ongoing US commitment to advise, enable, and assist Iraqi forces in their fight against the Islamic State militants. 

Muqtada al-Sadr organized a public prayer on Friday, making a comeback to politics after months of silence.

A high-ranking Kurdish delegation led by Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met with officials in Baghdad over energy, security and finance disputes — but no resolution is expected.

The US is now ransacking Fallujah’s name, too, while the system it bequeathed Iraqis seeks legitimacy through football.

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Differences are growing between Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani and his political ally in parliament, the Coordination Framework.

The PMU had set up a monument of Qassim Soleimani and Abo Mahdi Mohandas on Baghdad's airport boulevard this year, something that the former Iraqi government had blocked

Iraq experienced a political crisis between the October 2021 and October 2022 legislative elections, during which the Council

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