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Iraq

Members of Iraqi security forces at an oil field in Dibis area on the outskirts of Kirkuk. (Reuters)

Tensions rekindle in Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk

Azhar Al-Rubaie

Iraq

Iraqi lawmakers are seen during the first session of the new Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, Iraq September 3, 2018. (Reuters)

Iraqi politicians under fire over alleged visits to Israel

Mamoon Alabbasi

Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses Islamist parliamentarians during a meeting in Istanbul, December 14. (Presidential Press Service)

Syria endgame: Turkish tactics, American disarray

US

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks during a joint press conference in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on December 11, 2018. (AFP)

US energy secretary discusses oil production with Saudi Arabia, Iraq

YouGov

How YouGov attempted to influence Kurdish independence vote

Tallha Abdulrazaq

Iraq

Newly elected Iraqi President Barham Salih (L) walks with his predecessor Fuad Masum during the handover ceremony in Baghdad, on October 3. (AFP)

Iraqis agree on new leaders but stability still precarious

Mamoon Alabbasi

US

US President Donald Trump (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talk at the start of the NATO summit in Brussels, on July 11. (Reuters)

Arm-wrestling or not, Turkey’s spat with the West leaves a mark

IRGC

An Iranian Kurdish man arrives at the Iran-Iraq border crossing of Haji Omran, last January. (AFP)

Iran’s porous periphery faces armed challenge

Kurds

Kurdish security forces gather at the governorate building in Erbil, on July 23. (Reuters)

Iraqi Kurds wary of resurgence of home-grown terrorism

Mamoon Alabbasi