Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to engineer a dialogue with his old foe Bashar Al-Assad while preparing to invade northern Syria in another spin to his desperate foreign policy.
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As the political crisis rages on and it is unclear what stakeholders will do next, Iraqis should work out what to do in order to prevent their country falling apart.
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With their dream of creating an independent state still unfulfilled, Palestinians in Gaza are resorting to a survival strategy as Israel remains a foe that has teeth and feels emboldened by deepening ties with Arabs, writes Salah Nasrawi
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Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr’s ambitions may have outstripped his abilities as he is now seeking to rival Iran, writes Al-Ahram Weekly.
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There are growing signs that Iran is showing weak spots in its influence in Iraq, though decoupling may be the last thing on its leaders’ minds.
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Leaked audio recordings attributed to former Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki have deepened rifts within the country’s Shia factions and highlighted its incompetent leadership.
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A trip to the region has tested Joe Biden’s new Middle East policy, but has the US president notched up a political victory just by sharing the spotlight with nine Arab leaders? Probably not.
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The rhetoric about a military alliance bringing Israel together with its former regional foes is receding due to disapproval by many Arab governments and widespread public opposition.
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Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr has always been unpredictable, but his order to his followers to walk out of Iraq’s parliament after winning a majority of seats seems bewildering.
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India has long enjoyed strong ties with the Arab world, but the Indian ruling party’s rising Islamophobia could jeopardise that friendship, writes Salah Nasrawi
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The UN is increasing its pressure on Iraq to repatriate thousands of former Islamic State fighters and their families from a Kurdish-controlled camp in Syria.
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The effects of the failure of the Iran-US nuclear talks may go far beyond the waves of conflicts currently reverberating across the region.
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The damage from desertification in Iraq is becoming more widespread, going beyond recurrent sandstorms to making parts of the country unlivable, writes Salah Nasrawi
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The killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while reporting on Israeli military raids in the West Bank has dealt a severe blow to Israel’s image as a democracy, and shattered illusions for a genuine Middle East peace probably forever.
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Iraq’s Sunni Arabs need an efficient leadership and a coherent strategy to influence the country’s mainstream national politics.
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Unprecedented levels of dam building by Iran are leaving downstream Iraqi rivers crying out for water, writes Salah Nasrawi
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The crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan is deepening as the autonomous region becomes snowed under by its own crushing dysfunction, writes Salah Nasrawi
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The UK’s plan to send asylum-seekers arriving in the country to “concentration centres” in Rwanda is rooted in inhumanity and racism.
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In order to resolve its political crisis, Iraq may need foreign help, but that could only work if external actors stopped affecting the conflict, writes Salah Nasrawi
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Iraq’s courts are in trouble, and political wrangling has made a bad situation worse, writes Salah Nasrawi
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