Plans to strip Iraq’s Iran-backed militias of their weapons are flawed and may be falling apart, writes Salah Nasrawi
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The Iran conflict is prompting a slew of geopolitical realignments, but many are likely to prove fleeting.
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The US and Iran have paused the full-scale war, but their on-and-off attacks continue to send jitters among war-weary Iraqis.
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Despite the recent crackdown on corruption in Iraq, the country’s deep-seated institutional rot may be irreversible.
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Shia Muslims commemorated the religious festival of Ashura this year amid the fallout of the US-Iran war.
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Efforts to disarm Iraq’s Shia militias remains locked in a fragile stalemate.
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With the Strait of Hormuz under strain, Middle East trade corridors face real tests.
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The stakes for the Gulf countries from the Iran war are high, as a possible geopolitical quandary looms.
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While Iraq’s Shia bloc may finally have named a new prime minister, the country’s political deadlock is far from over.
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The US-Iran conflict will likely become more challenging rather than less after peace talks fell apart, writes Salah Nasrawi
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The US-Israeli war on Iran was assumed to rally the Arab world behind its banner, but signs of splits promise to throw it into further disarray.
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In Persian culture patience and persistence bring success. This may perhaps help untangle Iran’s war strategy.
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Trump is going after Shia-led regime in Iraq as he claims a swift removal of Iran’s leadership.
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After his death, Khamenei’s Fatwa banning a nuclear bomb is now in doubt.
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The Middle East is in disruption in Trump’s new world order and it needs an alternative vision to reshape its future.
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Behind Trump’s bravado in Iraq and Iran and his betrayal to Syrian Kurds, there lurks something more disturbing.
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Middle Eastern geopolitics tells us that destabilising Iran could come at cost to regional order.
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How six elections since the ouster of Saddam’s dictatorship have remade Iraq an electoral autocracy but not a functional state, writes Salah Nasrawi
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Has the war on Gaza reset the Middle East? Probably not yet, but it still may.
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Israel’s delusional vision of itself as a solo regional superpower may come down to something like protein that the body burns over a longer period of time.
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