Iraqi Prime Minister Sudani's White House visit will discuss US forces in Iraq, sanctions, and bilateral relations. Amid pro-Iranian pressures, the visit seeks to balance diplomatic and economic interests with the US, highlighting the complex US-Iraq dynamics and regional geopolitical implications. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Sudani will lead a prominent delegation to
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Over the past 15 years, China has executed a strategy in Iraq that has been incredibly effective. Although the two countries recently commemorated their 65th anniversary of friendship, arguably this relationship really began in earnest in 2007 when the two countries’ presidents met and China agreed to cancel Iraq’s debt. China’s debt relief served as a prelude to its eventual e
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Washington’s ever-narrowing Iraq policy has left it with unpalatable choices, but muddling through is a better short-term option than allowing the relationship to rupture. raq is back in the headlines, and once again for all the wrong reasons. On January 28, an Iraqi militia attack in Jordan killed three American service members and injured dozens more, moving the situation
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Cop28 must be a moment for collective action, both in the region and worldwide The garden of Eden is said to have existed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates, in Iraq. Over the past two centuries, foreign adventurers came to marvel at the waterways and marshes immortalised in the Epic of Gilgamesh, with their water buffalo, wild boar, otters, pelicans, flocks of f
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Overall bilateral trade fundamentals are increasing despite sanctions The cultural and economic connection between Mesopotamia and Russia goes back to centuries before the Middle Ages. But in the contemporary era, Soviet-Iraq relations were established in September 1944. Despite the ups and downs of 1955 and the restoration of relations in 1958, Baghdad became one of the
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