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Iraq’s Sunnis and Kurds face a more peripheral future

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IRAQ

Discussions on the future of the US-Iraq security relationship will be followed with intense interest by both Iran-backed Shia forces in Iraq and their increasingly sidelined…

Prospects for Iraq in 2018

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PROSPECTS 2018

Prospects for Iraq in 2018.

Iraq’s elections point to broad-based unity cabinet

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IRAQ

Iraq is struggling to finalise the results of national elections on May 12. However, the probable broad outlines of the next parliament are already visible, with the political…

Ankara will stick to its Syria policy despite Moscow

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TURKEY/RUSSIA

Confrontations between Russian and Turkish fighter jets along the Turkish-Syrian border -- which triggered strong expressions of support for Turkey from NATO and the EU -- have…

Turkey's Kurds will be angry if HDP is not re-elected

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TURKEY

The process looks in danger. Serious local conflicts in south-eastern Turkey are straining tensions between Kurds and the government, even though guerrilla warfare has not…

Iraqi Kurdish referendum will go ahead on time

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IRAQ

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) plans to hold the poll in all Kurdish-controlled areas of the country, including territories disputed with Baghdad. Although the vote is…

Turkey's Kurdish guerrillas are beaten, not finished

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TURKEY

If it was a suicide bomb, that would point to Islamist militants rather than the secular Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its supporters, who have fought a bitter but losing…

Weaker AKP would reduce Turkish president's authority

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TURKEY

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) should easily get the most votes, but it faces a likely setback and a dent in its authority. Weakening support from its voters and…