Showing posts with label 2020 Provincial Elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2020 Provincial Elections. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Iraq Will Try To Pick New President But Questions Remain

(AFP)

Speaker Mohammed al-Halbusi announced that Iraq’s parliament would meet October 13 to pick a president and move forward in selecting a new government. There are open questions about what will happen during the session.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

New Iraq Poll: People Focused Upon Govt And Not Happy


With the war against the Islamic State over and violence at its lowest level since the 2003 invasion, most Iraqis are turning their attention to the Iraqi government and are not happy with what they see. A poll released in July 2019 by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) conducted in the spring found that most Iraqis think their country is going in the wrong direction because of their concerns about Baghdad.
(NDI)

Review Edmund Ghareeb, The Kurdish Question In Iraq, Syracuse University Press, 1981

   Edmund Ghareeb’s The Kurdish Question In Iraq is a bit of an oddity. On the one hand it takes much of what the Baath gove...