Austerity for the Poor and Prosperity for the Rich
With fragile social protection systems in the Arab world, people have constructed their own resilience mechanisms for survival.
With fragile social protection systems in the Arab world, people have constructed their own resilience mechanisms for survival.
Iraqis have the same right to decide their own future as the people of Afghanistan.
The attack on the Bashiqa base in northern Iraq indicates that Shia militias have augmented their verbal threats against Turkey to concrete actions.
Baghdad will have to confront formidable security challenges inside Iraq on its own.
The US has left some military bases in Iraq. What does that mean for its confrontation with Iran?
Eliminating Qassem Soleimani significantly raises the risk of a direct confrontation between the US and Iran.
The regime in Tehran has been increasingly expanding its oppression methods to the diaspora and to countries where it wields influence.
The US military presence in the Middle East now appears to represent nothing more than an absence of thought.
By not responding to the brutal quelling of protests, the US and its allies are giving a green light to Iran and silently sealing Iraq's fate.
Iraq’s domestic problems still overwhelm the functioning of the government.
Irrespective of whether the current government survives, or the protests subside, unrest will continue in Iraq.
Domestic unrest and foreign intervention in Iraq pose major threats to the greater Basra area.
Environmental degradation feeds into social insecurity, which in turn has the potential to feed into social conflict and instability.
