By Hamza Mustafa
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat – Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has begun extensive consultations with key political leaders in order to resolve the crises that have arisen on the I...

By Michael Aron, British Ambassador to Iraq

Rather than the usual one or two day visit to Erbil, I have just spent a week in Kurdistan Region travelling to Suleymaniya, Dohuk, Soran and Sh...

By Levison Wood

Hussein Hassan is 84, and, with a neatly trimmed and brilliantly white moustache looks every inch the immaculate host. He sits on the carpet smoking a cigarette through a t...

Erbil, Iraq - Nine years ago this week, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was toppled. Iraq is still struggling with how to keep the country's divided political factions and its regions together. A ha...

By Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, knows trouble: His movement has endured multiple wars, diplomatic betrayals and even chemical weapons at...