Saddam hussein

Iraq's former PM who helped fuel ISIS makes unlikely comeback - analysis

Nouri al-Maliki let ISIS take over a third of Iraq in 2014. He spent years in the political wilderness, but now he is angling for a third term as prime minister.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reacts at a polling station inside Al-Rasheed Hotel during the parliamentary election in Baghdad, Iraq, November 11, 2025.
Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities

'Delayed deaths': UK report claims chemical agents used on Iranian protesters

Reports from UK officials suggest Iran used chemical substances to control protesters. Alleged delayed health reactions lead to deaths days later, sparking international concern.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, ELI LEON, MAARIV
President of Iraq, Barham Salih, speaks during the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, US September 23, 2021.

United Nations General Assembly elects former Iraqi President to lead UN refugee agency

Salih will begin a five-year term on January 1, 2026.

|ByREUTERS
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the former Iranian Foreign Minister, gives a speech during an election rally in support of Iranian presidential election candidate Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, Iran, on June 24, 2024.

Iran 'paid heavy price' for supporting proxies, Palestinians, ex-FM Zarif says at Doha Forum

Zarif argued that Jerusalem misread Iran’s staying power when the fighting resumed earlier this year. “The Israelis launched this aggression based on mistaken assumptions,” he said.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Is democracy feasible in Iraq?

The most poignant reason that majoritarian democracy for Iraq is a political fallacy is the role that political memory plays in defining groups views toward the state.

JUNE 4, 2018ByDAVAR MOHAMMED
Vehicles drive under campaign posters ahead of the parliamentary election, in Erbil, Iraq

The Israeli Air Force ace who almost didn’t make it

He was the soldier who at first failed to qualify to be a pilot in the IAF, but who ended his 30-year career in the IAF as one of the top aces.

MAY 12, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Amir Nachumi: ‘Becoming a pilot was an aspiration for many of us back then. The whole atmosphere in those days was to serve the country.’

The pen and the sword

The age of the dictator has not passed, alas, and demagogues are having their day.

APRIL 5, 2018ByMATTHEW PRICE
A COPY of the book ‘Hitler, Mein Kampf. A Critical Edition’ lies on a display table in a bookshop in Munich in 2016

Wanted: A border

Yossi Beilin, architect of the Oslo Accords, offers a peace alternative.

FEBRUARY 5, 2018ByGOL KALEV
Yossi Beilin

Peace with Iran Maybe?

NOVEMBER 30, 2017ByHUSSEIN NOURI
The Jerusalem Post

The Curse of Saddam on Palestinians

NOVEMBER 28, 2017ByHUSSEIN NOURI
The Jerusalem Post

An Admired Enemy

NOVEMBER 25, 2017ByHUSSEIN NOURI
The Jerusalem Post

Advise and assist: The Iraqi army through the eyes of an American advisor

Fourteen years after the first insurgents emerged in Iraq in 2003, the US may have found a model that works in Iraq.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A US soldier runs at a coalition forces forward base near West Mosul, Iraq June 21, 2017

If Baghdadi is dead, next ISIS leader likely to be Saddam-era officer

Armed groups fighting in the region and many regional officials are skeptical about the reports of his death.

JUNE 23, 2017ByREUTERS
Al-Baghdadi proclaimed himself 'caliph,' or ruler of all Muslims, from the pulpit of the al-Nuri Mosque on July 4, 2014

PA leader makes 1st Kuwait visit in 20 years

Abbas makes first visit since rift developed when Yasser Arafat was thought to back Hussein in 1st Gulf War.

APRIL 15, 2013ByREUTERS
Abbas in Kuwait370