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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.

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

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

 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


Iraqi who tried to topple Saddam statue regrets it

10 years later, man famous for trying to bring down statue with sledgehammer regrets that Saddam is gone.

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February 5: Preventive health

If the Health Ministry invested a small amount of money in an advertising campaign and changed its attitude, the hospitals would be at less than fullcapacity come next winter.

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Jordan gears up for parliamentary elections

Absence of Islamists from ballot stirs conflict over vote; activists bemoan the fact candidates are not competent.

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Famed Gulf War US General Schwarzkopf dies at 78

'Stormin Norman', who headed coalition which drove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, dies at Tampa, Florida home.

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Tiraillés entre deux foyers

Les Israéliens nés en Iran regardent avec inquiétude la tension monter entre leur patrie et leur pays d’adoption.

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Into the Fray: Illogical, ineffectual, immoral

Without a credible threat of military force, the policy of sanctions against Iran lacks wisdom, efficacy and morality.

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The Jerusalem Post

Syria: An agenda for action

Every day, Syrian civilians die, not because of the actions we have taken, but because of the actions we have not taken.

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Judaism's view of the Almighty and Israel's almighty weapon

The Jerusalem Post

Jewish Ideas Daily: The problem of evil

Baron-Cohen is a leading member of an international cadre of cutting-edge clinical scientists who painstakingly study the functioning of compromised human brains.

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