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Explainer: What's driving the power struggle in Iraq?

A power struggle in Iraq between the influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr and Iran-backed Shi'ite rivals has escalated with his supporters breaking into parliament and beginning an open-ended sit-in protest.

Reuters

Hundreds of protesters camp at Iraq parliament for a second day

Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr erect tents and prepare for a sit-in protesting his rivals’ efforts to form a government.

Al Jazeera

Martin Schram: Veterans become political pawns

It was four in the afternoon on March 10, 1991, when the first planned explosion of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons went off at the U.S. weapons depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq, and the first gray-white smoke cloud that would come to be called The Plume wafted skyward and drifted over the…

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Iraq: Hundreds of Muqtada al-Sadr supporters storm parliament

Protesters walk on tables and sit in chairs of MPs

The Independent UK

Deadlock gives Iraq record run without government, hampering reforms

Iraq marked its longest post-election deadlock on Wednesday as infighting among Shi'ite and Kurdish groups in particular prevents the formation of a government, hampering reforms needed as the country struggles to recover from decades of conflict.

Reuters

Belgium-Iran treaty clears the way for Paris attack suspect to return home

Belgian MPs have voted to ratify a fiercely criticised treaty allowing prisoner exchanges with Iran, potentially opening the way for an Iranian diplomat jailed on terrorism charges to return home.

Radio France Internationale

Belgium-Iran treaty clears the way for Paris attack suspect to return home

Belgian MPs voted on Wednesday to ratify a fiercely-criticised treaty allowing prisoner exchanges with Iran, potentially opening the way for an Iranian diplomat jailed on terrorism charges to return home.

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Iraqi cleric shows power as thousands attend mass prayer

Tens of thousands of Iraqis are attending a mass prayer in Baghdad called for by an influential Shiite cleric

The Independent UK

Sadr’s Supporters Throng Baghdad Streets in Show of Strength

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's followers thronged the streets of Baghdad on Friday, answering the populist leader's call to a mass prayer in a show of strength to his political rivals. Sadr, a Shiite whose party came first in a general election in October, has vowed to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mo Farah: Met Police assessing allegations Olympian was trafficked to UK as child

Met Police says specialist officers are assessing information on claims Olympian was forced to work as servant

The Independent UK

Police ‘assessing’ allegations Sir Mo Farah was trafficked to UK as child

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi praised Sir Mo as a ‘truly inspirational’ role model after the revelations.

The Independent UK

No Nukes? Ukraine-Russian War Will Shape World’s Arsenals

The headlines on the newsstands in Seoul blared fresh warnings of a possible nuclear test by North Korea. Out on the sidewalks, 28-year-old office worker Lee Jae Sang already had an opinion about how to respond to North Korea's fast-growing capacity to lob nuclear bombs across borders and oceans. "Our…

Asharq Al-Awsat

No nukes? Ukraine-Russian war will shape world's arsenals

Nuclear Russia's pillaging of non-nuclear Ukraine is rattling what's already a destabilizing moment in nuclear nonproliferation efforts

The Independent UK

Heidi Stevens: The Chicks don't know it, but they're helping me raise my children. (And doing a darn fine job.)

It’s fair to say The Chicks have helped me raise my children.

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The Conversation

Hello Commander: new pop song aims to steer Iranian youth away from the temptations of American culture

The Tehran Times recently hailed what it referred to as: “A new epic song themed with generational support for the Islamic Revolution…” Hello Commander, which is being sung by schoolchildren across the country, is an attempt by the current conservative government of Iran to unify the youth around their particular…

Reuters

Iraq's Sadr: from outlaw to top politician

Populist Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr went from a mercurial outlaw wanted dead or alive during the U.S. occupation to a kingmaker in politics before transforming himself into the most powerful figure in the country.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq Continues to Exhume Mass Graves

A noisy backhoe digs up earth to uncover yet another mass grave in Iraq, human remains are exhumed and the forensics experts get to work on their grim task. A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for…

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Beckett is still wrong about the Iraq war and WMD claims

Letter: Frank Jackson on the former Labour deputy leader’s recollections about the 2003 Iraq war

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Salon

Increase gas and oil? Absolutely not

Author of "The World Without Us" on his recent trip to Iraq — and why the Ukraine war is no excuse to pump more oil

Daily Mirror

'I escaped Saddam Hussein's regime as a child - now I want to be Miss England'

Roza Kurdo and her mum scaped savage mass killings in Iraqi Kurdistan and sought a better life in Britain. She is now 25 and is hoping to be crowned Miss England 2022

Salon

Russia and the U.S.: Dance of death

Doddering Cold War adversaries are marching toward war: For their decrepit elites, it's literally the last hurrah

France 24

‘Our River… Our Sky’ – Iraqi filmmaker confronts violence and anguish in 2006 Baghdad

Maysoon Pachachi’s latest feature film explores the agonising decisions faced by an interwoven cast of friends and family living in Baghdad in 2006. The film’s narrative unfolds over the course of the last week of 2006, a timeframe that culminates in the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. But…

Reason

After the War

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for Europe to step up and America to step back.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq Exhibits Restored Art Pillaged after 2003 Invasion

Verdant landscapes, stylized portraits of peasant women, curved sculptures -- an exhibition in Baghdad is allowing art aficionados to rediscover the pioneers of contemporary Iraqi art. Around one hundred items are on display in the capital, returned and restored nearly two decades after they were looted. Many of the works,…

The Independent UK

In Iran, Russia's war on Ukraine is a political flash point

Russia’s war on Ukraine has exposed just how much Iran has tilted toward Moscow in recent years

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