Iraqi factions opposed to the U.S. military presence received a gift on Feb. 3, when President Donald Trump declared that U.S. troops were to remain in Iraq...
Adel Abdel-Mahdi, a former finance minister, oil minister and vice president of Iraq, barely managed to secure a confidence vote of two-thirds of his Cabinet...
On June 5, one day after King Abdullah II had accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki, Omar al-Razzaz was designated as Jordan’s new prime...
With parliamentary elections set for May 12, most of the campaign has so far consisted of prominent major figures such as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and...
Jordan’s 2018 budget, which became law on Jan. 18, appears to be a success for Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki. When he assumed office in 2016, Jordan was headed...
Iraq’s parliamentary elections are set for May 12 following a heated debate over efforts to delay them. Despite some hope that war and widespread...
Jordan’s government, headed by Prime Minister Hani al-Mulqi, is taking on labor market reform. It is fighting decades of dependence on foreign labor while...
The Kurdistan Regional Government pressed ahead with an independence referendum Monday. The referendum, primarily led by Kurdistan Democratic Party leader...
Jordan held its first-ever local elections on Aug. 15, including provincial councils, municipal councils, local councils, mayoralties, and the Amman...
In his third year, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is facing another political fight in Baghdad over provincial elections (set for this year) and...
An American airstrike in Mosul on March 17, which appears to have led to over 200 civilian deaths, has increased attention on civilian casualties and sparked...
Iraqi security forces began direct operations to liberate Mosul, the capital of Ninevah province, from Daesh (ISIS) the morning of Oct. 17. Kurdish peshmerga...
King Abdullah II’s May 29 appointment of Hani al-Mulqi, head of the Aqaba Special Economic Region Authority, to replace outgoing Prime Minister Abdullah...
The liberation of Ramadi’s city center on Dec. 28 came two years to the day after former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki began his ill-conceived military...
The Iraqi parliament voted on Nov. 2 to revoke any mandate for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to conduct reforms, putting an end to an 11-week period in which...
On July 14, the Badr Organization held a funeral procession in Baghdad for several of its leaders who had died fighting ISIS in Anbar, including Abu Muntadhar...
The fall of Ramadi on May 17 has had two key repercussions, neither of which will be reversed by simply retaking lost ground. First, it weakened Prime...
On April 8, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi traveled to the Habbaniya military base in east Anbar for a follow-up to the liberation of Tikrit. Speaking...
After the recent Tikrit offensive, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi turned his focus to Anbar, where only limited areas of the expansive western province...