Mamoon Alabbasi

Mamoon Alabbasi is Deputy Managing Editor and Online Editor of The Arab Weekly. You can follow him on Twitter @MamoonAlabbasi

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An Iraqi security forces member holds a position near Salaheddine province in the western desert bordering Syria, last November. (AFP)
Iraq points to Syrian border threat as ISIS steps up attacks
04-14-2018
International outcry. Protesters take part in a demonstration in central London in support of Palestianians in Gaza, on April 7. (AFP)
Israel struggling to justify shootings near Gaza border
04-14-2018
Iraqi electoral commission employees update voting registries for the May 2018 parliamentary elections. (AFP)
Eyes set on Iran ahead of Iraq elections
04-07-2018
A protester holding Palestinian flags during clashes with Israeli troops near Gaza’s border with Israel, on April 5. (Reuters)
Gaza deaths highlight urgency of Mideast peace
04-05-2018
Palestinian Head of the Statistics Authority Ola Awad (L) presents the preliminary results of the general census of population, housing and establishments in Ramallah, on March 28.(AFP)
Arab population statistics renew charged debate on Israel’s future
03-31-2018
A 2016 file picture shows a member of the PKK-affiliated Yazidi militia, Sinjar Resistance Units, disarming an improvised explosive device near the village of Umm al-Dhiban in northern Iraq. (Reuters)
Iraq reassures Turkey on PKK threat but challenges remain
03-31-2018
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (R) listens to Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. (AP)
Why did Israel own up to its Syria 2007 air raid?
03-24-2018
An Iraqi forces’ tank faces an ISIS mural in the city of al-Qaim in Iraq’s western Anbar province near the Syrian border. (AFP)
ISIS seeking a comeback in Iraq
03-24-2018
A Palestinian woman sits with a child after receiving food supplies from the United Nations’ offices in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 11. (AFP)
Gaza Strip woes receive renewed attention but no fix is expected
03-17-2018
A political morass. Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN Riyad H. Mansour addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, on January 25. (AFP)
Apparent leadership crises add to Mideast peace hurdles
03-10-2018
An Islamic State member looks out from a cell in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah, last year. (Reuters)
Dealing with captured ISIS members is no easy task for Iraqi authorities
03-10-2018
An Iraqi woman stands by a sign marking International Women’s day in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. (AFP)
Iraq marks women’s day without ISIS but scars remain
03-08-2018
Shot and arrested. Palestinian Mohammed Tamimi, 15, sitting in his family home in the occupied West Bank, on February 27. (AFP)
Israel’s PR disaster in dealing with the Tamimi teens
03-03-2018
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visits the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem, last May. (AFP)
Friedman’s warning of risk of ‘civil war’ in Israel raises a storm
02-24-2018
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the United Nations Security Council, in New York on February 20. (AFP)
Palestinian, US and Israeli officials trade accusations at UN meeting
02-21-2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (C) attends the Kuwait international conference for the reconstruction of Iraq in Kuwait City, on February 13. (AFP)
Iraq reconstruction bid hinges on own policies, regional ties
02-17-2018
Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi is in a courtroom at Israel’s Ofer military prison in the West Bank, on February 13. (AFP)
Ahed Tamimi, Palestinian teen, tried in closed Israeli military court
02-14-2018
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on February 3. (AFP)
Wiretapping allegations cause new embarrassment to Abbas
02-10-2018
An Iraqi flag mounted on a military vehicle at an oil field in Dibis area on the outskirts of Kirkuk. (Reuters)
After ISIS black flags, Iraq faces ‘White Banners’ threat
02-07-2018
An Iraqi oil technician checks a pressure gauge as he turns a valve at a gas installation north of the southern Iraqi port of Basra, on January 22.(AFP)
Iraq’s bid to boost oil production faces challenges
02-03-2018