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ARTICLE: What to expect from Iraq’s election?
May 15, 2018
ALJAZEERA ENGLISH: This week’s elections in Iraq are unlikely to produce any earth-shattering results. There is far more electoral competition between parties in Iraq than most other countries in the region, including Lebanon where voters this week ret …
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ARTICLE: Here’s what old constitutional debates tell us about the new crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan
October 31, 2017
THE WASHINGTON POST: The day before a Sept. 25 independence referendum, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) published a 30-page report arguing that Iraq is a “voluntary union” in which Kurdistan has “retained its sovereign status.” The report also …
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ARTICLE: What next for Iraq after the failed Kurdish referendum?
October 29, 2017
AL-JAZEERA: The punditry world has never been as united as it is today: virtually everyone agrees that the independence referendum that was organised on 25 September in Iraqi Kurdistan was an unmitigated disaster. There is also a consensus on what fact …
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REPORT: Libya’s final draft constitution – A contextual analysis
October 4, 2017
CONSTITUTIONNET: On 29 July 2017, Libya’s Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) achieved what many were starting to think was impossible. Over two thirds of its members, including a majority from the eastern region, approved a final draft constitution. …
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ARTICLE: Decoding Muqtada al-Sadr’s Gulf visits
August 22, 2017
ALJAZEERA ENGLISH: Muqtada al-Sadr is the scion of one of Iraq’s most important families of Shia clerics, which has traditionally been associated with the country’s poor underclass. Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Sadrist movement took u …
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ARTICLE: Can Anyone Stop Iran From Taking Over Iraq?
August 22, 2017
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Mosul is back in the Iraqi government’s hands and the war against the Islamic State seems to finally be approaching its end. This is the good news. But one of the byproducts of the campaign is that Iran’s reach now extends even deep …
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ARTICLE: Post-ISIL Iraq: Breaking the cycle of violence
July 26, 2017
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH: There have been no surprises in Mosul. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was roundly defeated, and the combined forces of the Iraqi security services are victorious. In eastern Mosul, which was liberated months before …
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ARTICLE: On Mosul’s civilian deaths
April 8, 2017
AL JAZEERA: In October 2016, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) strategists and commanders were fully aware of the sheer number of Iraqi armed forces that were moving in to encircle Mosul. The operation to retake Iraq’s second-largest city …
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ARTICLE: Battle for Mosul upends false Iraq narrative
February 18, 2017
AL JAZEERA: The Iraqi army’s progress in Mosul over the past few months flies in the face of the narrative that has been created about Iraq since 2003. Narratives are often constructed, but rarely as aggressively as the story according to which Iraq is …
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ARTICLE: Can Iraq defeat ISIL without destroying Mosul?
October 31, 2016
AL-JAZEERA: The outcome of Iraq’s military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is beyond doubt. ISIL was never the mythical fighting force that many people assumed, and it was always just a matter of time until the Iraqi army woul …
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