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    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Iraq sacks central bank governor as dinar slides in value

      Former governor Ali Mohsen al-Allaq returns as Baghdad struggles with a lack of dollars

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

      Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

    • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Iran targets Kurds sheltering in Iraq: ‘We’re being used as a scapegoat’

      Tehran seeks to blame dissident groups across the border for anti-government protests

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      Disrupted Times
      Verdicts roll in on Autumn Statement: no jam today and no jam tomorrow

      COP27 goes to the wire, Iraq’s ‘heist of the century’, Sonic the Hedgehog creator arrested

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
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      Crypto broker Genesis halts withdrawals

      Iraq reels from $2.5bn tax ‘heist of the century’

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Iraq reels from $2.5bn tax ‘heist of the century’

      Bumper fraud implicates Baghdad elite and poses challenge for new prime minister

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Iraq names new leaders and breaks year-long political deadlock

      Abdul Latif Rashid defeats incumbent Barham Salih and paves way for new government to be formed

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      US citizen killed in Iranian attack in northern Iraq

      Tehran accuses dissidents in neighbouring country of fanning protests

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Travel
      Michael Palin: back on the road at 78 — and bound for Baghdad

      With his wanderlust undiminished at the age of 78, the former Python sets out across Iraq

    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      Cleric’s supporters withdraw from Baghdad’s green zone after 30 die in unrest

      Moqtada al-Sadr apologises to Iraqis and tells followers to pull back from heavily fortified zone

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Deadly protests erupt in Baghdad after Sadr quits

      Several killed in clashes in Iraqi capital’s green zone between supporters of populist Shia cleric and Iran-backed rivals

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Oil & Gas industry
      Baghdad threatens action against international buyers of Kurdish oil

      Move is latest in escalating row over shipments from semi-autonomous region

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      News in-depth
      Iraq paralysed by government stand-off as Moqtada al-Sadr unleashes protest

      Government dysfunction means Opec’s second-largest oil producer is failing to benefit from high crude prices

    • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
      Iraq bans citizens from interactions with Israel

      New law puts Baghdad at odds with Gulf nations building closer ties with Jewish state

    • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
      Iran
      Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim strike on Israeli target in Iraq

      Revenge attack follows alleged killings and raises tension amid bid to revive nuclear talks

    • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
      Ericsson
      Ericsson’s Iraq crisis deepens after DoJ says deal breached again

      Swedish group’s disclosure about possible Isis payments branded as ‘insufficient’

    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      Ericsson
      Ericsson says it may have paid Isis terror group in Iraq

      Shares in telecoms group drop after internal probe finds payments were made for transport routes

    • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
      Global Economy
      What we learn about money from Sumerian cattle farming

      Today’s interest rate outlook depends on centuries old economic principles

    • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
      Belt and Road Initiative
      China pours money into Iraq as US retreats from Middle East

      Beijing strengthens regional ties despite overall fall in Belt and Road investment

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      ‘Fallujah Land’: Iraq’s Anbar province rebuilds after Isis

      Five years after defeat of jihadis, there are signs of fragile economic growth in area known as resistance hotbed

    • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
      Iraqi man convicted of Yazidi genocide in landmark case

      Trial of IS member highlights Germany’s pioneering role in prosecuting suspected Middle East war criminals

    • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
      UK foreign policy
      UK apologises over 1990 Kuwait flight after Iraq invasion

      Passengers were used as ‘human shields’ during Gulf war after government failed to warn British Airways against landing

    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      Chloe Cornish
      Iraqi women displaced by Isis find new freedoms back home

      Families returning to Anbar province are allowing women to work, drive and abandon the veil

    • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
      David Gardner
      The future of Iraq is in the balance

      An assassination attempt on the country’s prime minister has raised fresh questions about militias backed by Iran

    • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
      Iraqi prime minister survives assassination attempt by drone

      Tensions are high as pro-Tehran political factions contest October election results

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