Two Blasts Signal Deadly Game in South AsiaThe Pakistan and India blasts suggest that a new wave of instability is in the making, raising concerns about broader insecurity.
Araghchi Set for Official Visit to FranceIranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi is set to visit France this week for discussions on bilateral relations and regional and international developments
Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
Saddam of Iraq waged against neighboring Iran.
However, over the part few months and amid the security developments in Iran followed by Israeli aggression, the Iranian officials have made a different decision on Afghan immigrants. Now Iran’s official policy is end of Afghans’ presence a ...
Saddam Hussein’s regime to help him push back PUK forces and reclaim Erbil. The clashes dragged on until September 1998, when the two sides, under US mediation and pressure, finally signed a peace deal.
That agreement has long since lost its teeth as a mechanism for resolving disputes. The po ...
Saddam Hussein before the US invasion of the country in 2003. In many instances, even open investigations or unproven allegations have been deemed sufficient for exclusion.
The current number of disqualifications has surpassed the record set in the 2010 election, where nearly 499 candidates were ba ...
Saddam’s war on Iran and Israel’s assault, arguing that global powers armed both enemies. He said Iran’s struggle is not against “small enemies” but against global arrogance. Even after the Iraq war, he added, enemies resorted to sanctions, cultural warfare, and psychol ...
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. A year later, under his leadership, Britain joined NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia. In 2000, he deployed troops to intervene in Sierra Leone’s civil war, and in 2001, after the September 11 attacks, backed American’s invasion of Afghanistan.
A tarnished p ...
Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Erbil began building its own energy infrastructure and started connecting oilfields to the Ceyhan pipeline via new links it constructed. This move allowed the semi-autonomous region to export oil largely independent of Baghdad.
This approach by the Kurds stirred ...
Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime, Sunnis enjoyed a privileged position, and many tribal leaders continue to blame Washington for their community’s current situation. Against this backdrop, Sawaya’s mission in Iraq is to rebuild Sunni trust and align them with US policies, a strategy a ...
Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Israel's past failures in engaging the Muslim world, and a general unfamiliarity with the region.
However, over time, these assumptions shifted. The primary catalyst for Israel's strategic reassessment was its confrontation with the Resistanc ...
Saddam Hussein, reflecting a decline in public trust in the political system and growing popular disillusionment with the effectiveness of successive governments.
Accordingly, this report will examine the main reasons for the increased participation, its political and social consequences, including ...
Saddam Hussein fell in 2003. These elections saw a rise in turnout rate after rounds of downward trend. The increase was reported 15 percent compared to the last election and it is expected that Iraqi election situation will influence the elections in other regional countries, and actually this incr ...