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Iraqi Kurdistan Has Energy Capacity to Help Europe, Says Iraqi Kurdish PM

The Kurdish region of northern Iraq has the capacity to make up for at least some of the energy shortfall in Europe, Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said on Monday. Barzani told an industry conference in Dubai that Kurdistan would soon become an important source of energy. "I am confident…

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Iran struck Iraq target over gas talks involving Israel - officials

A nascent plan for Iraq's Kurdistan region to supply gas to Turkey and Europe - with Israeli help - is part of what angered Iran into striking the Kurdish capital Erbil with ballistic missiles this month, Iraqi and Turkish officials say.

Reuters

Aboul Gheit to Asharq Al-Awsat: Iran Uses Arab Crises as Pressure Cards to Confront the West

Arab League Secretary General Ahmad Aboul Gheit said that the possible understanding between the United States and Iran in the ongoing nuclear negotiations in Vienna, “does not end” the Iranian nuclear threat, calling on Tehran to stop its “adventures” on Arab land, and to refrain from using Arab files to…

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Iraq Building Syria Wall to Keep out ISIS Fighters

Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop ISIS group militants from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday. In the "first stage" of construction, a wall around "a dozen kilometers (seven miles) long and 3.5 meters (11 feet) high was built in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Skokie man charged after cops find over $100,000 in drugs, cash at home

Officers searched 26-year-old Said Mahdi’s home Friday and uncovered $42,150 in cash, along with cocaine, cannabis, opioid painkillers and Xanax. Mahdi emigrated from Iraq during the U.S. occupation of the country.

Chicago Sun-Times

Iraq parliament fails to elect new state president over lack of quorum

Iraq's parliament failed again on Saturday to vote for a president after Iran-backed groups boycotted the session, in a setback to an alliance led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr which won the election and threatened to remove them from politics.

Reuters

Iraqi lawmakers fail to elect president for a second time

Iraqi lawmakers have failed to elect a head of state for a second time further deepening a political crisis

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Iraq’s lawmakers delay presidential vote as political standstill continues

Iraq's parliament on Saturday postponed once again a session to elect the country's new president over a lack of quorum.

France 24

Iraq Parliament Fails to Elect New State President over Lack of Quorum

Asharq Al-Awsat

LGBTQ people in Iraq face violence by armed groups, police

LGBTQ people in Iraq live in constant fear amid rising violence against their community.

Al Jazeera

Justice Ministers of Morocco, Iraq Discuss Judicial Agreement

Moroccan Minister of Justice Abdellatif Ouahbi has discussed with his Iraqi counterpart, Salar Abdul Sattar Mohammed, in Rabat signing a judicial agreement allowing Morocco to handle several cases of Moroccan ISIS members arrested in Iraq. The two countries were set to sign bilateral agreements, but Ouahbi announced at a press…

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Iraqis Fear Unrest if Parliament Fails to Elect President on Saturday

Tensions have spiked in Iraq on the eve of a parliamentary session dedicated to elect a new president. Concerns have mounted that the failure to elect a president for a second time could lead to violence in a country that is sharply divided between rival camps, namely the Shiite Sadrist…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Socceroos wait to learn play-off opponents

Australia still don't know who their opponents will be in the World Cup Asian play-off tie after Iraq's win over UAE only raised more question marks.

AAP

Second conviction quashed on appeal in Iraq ‘bribery’ case

Paul Bond’s appeal was granted by judges.

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Salon

How can America talk about "war crimes"?

America's massive hypocrisy makes a mockery of international law, and threatens to lead our planet to apocalypse

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rival Iraqi Camps Vie for Independent MPs to Secure Quorum for Presidential Election

Sharp divisions are persisting in Iraq between the rival Shiite camp of the Sadrist movement, of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and the pro-Iran Coordination Framework, ahead of Saturday's presidential elections. The two camps have been appealing to independent and opposition MPs to join their side to secure the needed quorum at…

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UNAMI Warns of Water Scarcity in Iraq

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, voiced concern over water shortage and ineffective management of water resources in Iraq. The warnings of the UN representative, which she addressed to political leaders through a message distributed by the UNAMI mission, come as the country faces…

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Wikileaks’ Assange to Marry in Prison

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his fiancée Stella Moris will get married on Wednesday, at the high-security London prison where he is being held during his extradition case. Assange, 50, is fighting attempts to remove him from the UK to face trial in the United States over the publication of…

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Foreign Affairs

The Middle East Is on the Brink Again

The Risks of an Unstable Authoritarian Order

The Conversation

Ukraine war: how Russian denial of civilian casualties follows tactics used in Syria

US president Joe Biden has labelled Russian president Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” for the way the war in Ukraine is being carried out.

Reuters

Ericsson investigating how it addressed Iraq probe, board backs CEO

Ericsson Chairman Ronnie Leten said on Monday a comprehensive review is underway led by its new chief legal officer over the company's conduct relating to Iraq and how it was addressed.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkey to Pull Out Hundreds of Soldiers from Syria to Fight PKK in Iraq

Some 400 Turkish forces deployed in the de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria would likely redeploy in northern Iraq to fight the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday. “Four hundred Turkish troops have packed up and finished their preparations to withdraw from…

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Iraq Digs Up Mass Grave Containing Bodies of ISIS Militants

Iraqi authorities said Sunday that they had exhumed the remains of 85 ISIS militants and their relatives from a mass grave in the northern city of Mosul. The remains of 35 people killed between 2016 and 2017 were dug up on Saturday while 50 were found on Sunday and "work…

The Independent UK

Iraqi Kurdish oil tycoon's home in ruins after Iran strike

Iranian missiles that struck northern Iraq earlier this week have laid to waste the sprawling mansion belonging to an Iraqi Kurdish oil tycoon near a U.S. consulate complex in the Iraqi city of Irbil

Reason

From Iraq to Ukraine, the American Press Loves a War

Today's journalists aren't speaking truth to power by not-so-subtly agitating for direct military involvement in Ukraine.

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