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Iraq
Iraq news and analysis from The Nation
May 11, 2018
Iraq’s parliamentary elections on Saturday could shift the balance of power away from the US.
March 27, 2018
Trump’s presidency has taken a foreboding turn—from madcap farce and unending melodrama toward grim tragedy.
March 20, 2018
But with friends like this—a repressive monarch, a war criminal, and a sectarian ideologue—who needs enemies?
March 20, 2018
Democrats need to insist on the fundamental principle that a torturer is unfit to serve in government in any capacity.
December 11, 2017
Ali Abdullah Saleh’s life is emblematic of the way the bright hopes of Arab nationalism have disintegrated into sectarianism.
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November 27, 2017
Riyadh’s divide-and-rule strategy has yielded few successes, and it hasn’t made a dent in Iran’s regional influence.
November 6, 2017
All of the wars waged by the United States in the last 70 years have had one thing in common.
November 3, 2017
Instead of cracking down on separatists, governments should devolve more powers to regional governments.
October 25, 2017
Baghdad’s seizure of oil-rich Kirkuk, aided by Shiite militias close to Tehran, has forced the Kurdish government to freeze its independence-referendum results.
August 22, 2017
The children who live through these conflicts could be scarred for decades.
