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Iraqi lawmakers passed early Monday controversial amendments to the country's election law that could undermine the chances for smaller parties and independent candidates to win seats in future polls. The amendments increase the size of electoral districts, a move widely backed by the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Iran-backed parties.…

Iraqi lawmakers have passed controversial amendments to the country's election law that could undermine the chances for smaller parties and independent candidates to win seats in future polls

Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the effects of war and occupation still reverberate through the region.

Sources close to influential parties in Iraq point that the political equation that brought about the government of Mohammad Shia al-Sudani will undergo sharp changes. The sources cited various circumstances, the most important of which is the highly probable return of the leader of As-Sadr movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, to the…

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said on Saturday that any international economic sanctions against regimes and governments have not and will not help achieve the “colonial” state's desired goal. Sadr expressed his strong opposition to Western sanctions imposed on Syria, noting that the Syrian people suffer from…

Iraqi leaders and officials are avoiding to use the term “Arab Gulf” when congratulating their country’s football team for winning the “25th Arabian Gulf Cup,” but Muqtada al-Sadr has decided to continue challenging Tehran by calling the waterway dividing Iran from its Arab neighbors the “Arab Gulf.” In a tweet,…

An influential Iraqi cleric who announced his withdrawal from politics four months ago has broken a period of relative silence to launch an anti-LGBTQ campaign

Iraq’s new Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani says he hopes to continue hosting talks in Iraq between regional arch-enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran during his tenure

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, whose government won Parliament’s confidence on Thursday, pledged to hold early parliamentary elections within a year, in what appeared to be an attempt to appease the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr. Al-Sudani pledged to “amend the Parliamentary Elections Law within three months…

Iraq’s parliament has voted to form a new Cabinet, ending a yearlong political stalemate

Al-Sudani nominated by Iraq’s new president, but the move will be fiercely opposed by supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr.