The potentially profound and widespread consequences of September’s Kurdish independence vote . By Feisal Amin Rasoul Al-Istrabadi *

Feisal Isterabadi

There are many issues that are likely to erupt between an independent Kurdistan and Iraq There is so little doubt that the referendum called for September on Kurdish independence from Iraq will pass overwhelmingly that it seems a waste of resources to hold it at all. To be clear, I do not oppose it: if Iraqi Kurds wish to declare their independence, they have that right. Pri

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How Can Iraq Rebuild? By JACK WATLING

The dilemma is that it needs money—and will inevitably lose some to corruption. On Sunday, Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister of Iraq, visited Mosul to herald the success of his army’s nine-month struggle to recapture the city from the Islamic State. In a speech on state television the next day, he declared “the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of

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Pioneering program makes aerial survey of Iraqi antiquities. By Adnan Abu Zeed*

Iraq, together with UNESCO, has concluded a comprehensive aerial survey of Iraqi heritage destroyed by the Islamic State (IS), paving the way for further cooperation to restore various Iraqi sites, particularly at the 13th-century Assyrian capital of Nimrod. In mid-May, Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini handed over to his Iraqi counterpart, Friad Rwandzi, a 500-pag

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