Nechirvan Barzani visits Iran for discussionsOn Sunday, Nechirvan Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, arrived in Tehran to engage in discussions with high-ranking Iranian authorities
While the US says it continues its advisory presence, game-changing actors in Iraq want complete combat and non-combat forces exit. Alwaght- Seven years after US military redeployment to Iraq under the excuse of fighting the ISIS terrorist group, a statement coming out of the fourth round of the US- ...
KDP is seeking to break the tradition and take the post. But PUK does not seem to show flexibility. Alwaght- Along with the post-election crisis in central and southern Iraq, the Kurdish politics is scene to a confrontation between the two leading parties. Although in northern Iraq claims about elec ...
The Turkish leader counters early elections demands with rejection and currency status improvement program, but the opposition seems. Alwaght- Amid the continuous slump of the Turkish national currency lira price, early elections demand by the opposition to end two decades of Recep Tayyip Erdog ...
The two major Kurdish parties are divided over who becomes Iraq president in Baghdad. Alwaght- Like the period that followed the fourth parliament election in 2018, these days a difference between Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) over who would fill the pos ...
Barzani insists on taking the post from Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which traditionally holds the Iraqi presidency. Alwaght- After Iraqi Federal Court banned former foreign and finance minister Hoshyar Zebari from running for president on February 13, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) named a new c ...
Barzani knows well that after rival Talabani, Barham Salih built a leadership face for PUK and so can reunite the rival of KDP. Alwaght- On March 5, the Iraqi parliament voted to reopen the door for nominating presidential candidates. The decision came as earlier the speaker and his aides had joined ...
The Reconstruction of the Homeland coalition announced its existence on March 23, 2022 at a press conference by Hassan al-Azari, the head of the parliamentary faction of the Sadr faction. The coalition, which the Sadrists claim is the largest faction in Iraq’s fifth parliament, consists of the Sadr ...
The two main Kurdish parties have been talking a solution in recent days as state political crisis continues in Iraq. Alwaght- After months of inter-Kurdish political tensions over Iraq president post, the two main Kurdish parties started moves in the past few days to settle the differences and poss ...
The supporters of Shiite Coordination Framework now are present in Green Zone in response to rival protests. Alwaght- The ongoing several-month political crisis in Iraq and the incapablity of the political factions to settle their differences have immersed Iraq into a full-scale uncertainty, making ...
The US-based influential pro-Israel lobby group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), is again in the news and again for the wrong reasons. This time because of the group’s no-holds-barred showdown with billionaire social media mogul Elon Musk. The US-based influential pro-Israel lobby group, the Anti- ...