The GCC aid package for Bahrain illustrates how massive capital flows underlie the contentious politics and strategic alliances within the Gulf and broader Middle East.
Iraqi water activists are working to empower local communities to have a greater say in the decisions that impact their waters, which may be enough to push Iraq’s government, after next month’s elections, to take the issue of water seriously.
Kurdish and pious voters will likely determine the fate of the country in the upcoming elections. The CHP needs to shed its image as a bastion of the old secular elite if it wants to win.
We must reintegrate arms exports into the U.S. foreign-policy process — and do a far better job of explaining why than the Trump administration has managed so far.
The recently passed Iraq National Oil Company law was meant to be one of several laws to regulate the oil and gas sector in the whole of Iraq. Instead, it circumvents oil disputes with the Kurdistan region and focuses more on appealing to the voters than on the future of the energy sector itself.