Alwaght- The Iraqi protests continue to unfold in the capital and some of the cities for the fourth month, although now smaller numbers are taking to the streets to protest corruption, poor services, and deteriorating living conditions. In the beginning, it could be said that there was not a ...
Read More »Iraqis Hold ’Million-Man March’ to Call for Expulsion of US Forces
Alwaght- Iraqi people held million-man march in capital on Friday, calling for expulsion of American forces from the Arab country following US regime’s assassination deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis as well as Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani near Baghdad International airport. Sayyed Sadiq al-Hashemi, the director ...
Read More »Iraqi Kurds And US Expulsion Riddle
Alwaght– The Iraqi parliament’s bill calling for foreign forces to pull out of Iraq remains a trending debate topic in the Iraqi political and security circles two weeks after approval. Certainly, the American troops operating in the country are the main point of focus of this bill which obligates the ...
Read More »Iraq Developments in Shadow of US Expulsion Bill
Alwaght– The West Asia region’s developments have gone a different direction after the assassination of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani near Baghdad airport. Reacting to the US assassination of IRGC Quds Force’s commander General Qassem Soleimani and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, various Iraqi political ...
Read More »Trump’s “NATOME” Idea: Goals, Outlook?
Alwaght– While under President Donald Trump the White House views on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) policies and ways of administration have been quite controversial for the other member states, the American leader has recently announced that he in a call to the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg suggested changing ...
Read More »Iran-Qatar Relations: A New Chapter’s Emerging
Alwaght– On Sunday, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad in a surprise visit arrived in Tehran and held talks with senior Iranian officials. The trip to Tehran takes place while tensions between the US and Iran are unprecedentedly running high after Trump-ordered assassination of Iran’s General Qssem Soleimani, the commander ...
Read More »New Sultan, Old Policy? Oman Policy Under New Leader
Alwaght– After the death of Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of on Friday, his cousin Haitham bin Tariq Al Said was named as his successor. The small Arab country had forty years of stable policy under Qaboos but now the speculations are being made internationally about what way ...
Read More »What Are The Implications Of Iran’s Missile Strikes On US Bases?
Alwaght– Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in early Wednesday morning fired 13 ballistic missiles on two American bases in Iraq in preliminary retaliation to the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraq’s Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis , the deputy head of Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). The retaliatory strikes, apparently demanded ...
Read More »How Saudis, Emiratis Penetrated Malaysian Politics?
Alwaght– According to a report by Aljazeera news network published on Thursday, Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission released on Wednesday a series of audio recordings in which former Prime Minister Najib Razak is heard seeking help from Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and colluding with a former ...
Read More »Expelling US Forces From Iraq: Possibility, Implications
Alwaght– On Sunday, Iraq’s parliament held an emergency session and passed a bill calling for foreign forces to withdraw from the country. The bill, aimed essentially at expelling the American forces, comes as the US in a state terrorism action that violated all of the international laws assassinated the commander ...
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