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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


Witness: In Libya, echoes of Baghdad's Firdos Square

If Libya is lucky its new government will learn from the mistakes of Iraq. There is already talk of unity of Libya's many tribes.

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Katsav and Mubarak trials

Assad is so scared by Mubarak's trial that his media have totally ignored it, even though it's most sensational trial in Arab history.

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Port crisis brings Iraq-Kuwait relations to new low

Sectarian undertones compound commercial worries, experts say; called "worst crisis between the two states since the Saddam era"

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Syrian opposition says Assad fomenting sectarian strife

Activist says Syrians won't repeat mistakes made in neighboring Iraq, where fighting between Sunnis, Shi'ites broke out after the fall of Hussein.

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Bombings kill 21 people in Iraqi city of Diwaniya

Suicide bomber, car bomb planted outside a governor's house in the central Iraqi city kill at least 21 people and injure more than 30.

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Summertime and the Livin' Ain't Easy

Spring has turned to summer in the Middle East and it promises to be a long hot summer of strife

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Analysis: Arab spring likely to leave oil firms unscathed

Some operations suspended in Libya; French oil major loses production at Yemen oil field, BP chief exec: "I wouldn't describe us as worried."

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Arab World: The road to Damascus

Syria is unlikely to be the next Arab state to witness anti-government unrest.

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Dudu Tassa and The Kuwaitys

On his new hit Arabic language album, rocker grandson Dudu Tassa is rejuvenating the Kuwaity brothers' music here.

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Bumpy road to democracy

A US administration that has so far been sending out confusing signals, and an Egypt lacking a democratic tradition do not bode well for the future.

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