رئيس مجلس الوزراء السيد محمد شياع السوداني، يتلقى اتصالاً هاتفياً من وزير الخارجية الأمريكي السيد ماركو روبيو، جرى خلاله استعراض العلاقات الثنائية والأوضاع العامة في المنطقة. وأكد رئيس مجلس الوزراء دعم العراق لجهود تثبيت الاستقرار بالمنطقة، واستدامة اتفاقات وقف إطلاق النار، ووقف

I would question the significance of declarations like this. It is a "recognition" that does not exist, & if Israel were to fully withdraw from Gaza & the WB tomorrow, a Palestinian state would not exist, & might or might not come into being over time.

Repost from Substack: "A Hashd-Police Shootout in Baghdad: Two Hashd Brigades Tied to Kitaib Hizbullah Engaged in an Open Shootout with Police in Karkh, Baghdad" khsowell.substack.com/p/a-hashd-poli…

Low oil prices are timing with high-stakes political positioning ahead of #Iraq's upcoming parliamentary elections in November. There are yet no signs of the government curbing spending, deferring a potential crisis to the next one. I am very pleased to see this article

Substack post on the Khor Abdullah controversy: substack.com/@khsowell/note…?

Another post on Khor Abdullah, related to a major opposition event in Basra. substack.com/@khsowell/note…

Substack post on the Khor Abdullah debate, including an intervention from the head of the Judicial High Council; as the post notes, Inside Iraqi Politics will be providing more depth on this issue. substack.com/@khsowell/note…

On the other hand, some would argue that terrible economic policies are a greater threat to both federal Iraq & Kurdistan than anything related to the Baath era.

.Aymenn J Al-Tamimi on the full arc of Hurras al-Din and post-Jabhat al-Nusrah al-Qaeda in Syria: ctc.westpoint.edu/hurras-al-din-…

Washington plans to zero out stipends for Iraqi Kurdistan’s peshmerga forces but will continue funding Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces Syrian Democratic Forces through 2026.