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Analysis: Iraq’s 2025 election results

Preliminary results paint a picture of the balance of power in the next Parliament and the dynamics likely to shape government formation and the energy sector.
Security guards stand at the entrance to a polling station in Basra on Nov. 11, 2025. (ALI AL-AQILY/Iraq Oil Report)

Iraqis react to Iranian election

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election as President of Iran has raised new questions about relations between the two neighbouring countries.

Combating female circumcision

Activist describes challenges facing those trying to end the controversial practice in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Water fight

Iraq warns Turkey on Euphrates water supplies.

The Kuwaiti tab

Post-Saddam, Iraq’s war with Kuwait is far from over.

Heads in the sand

The fragility of Sunni incorporation into Iraqi governance could have been headed off earlier in the war.

Laid to rest

U.S. official tasked with advising Iraq Electricity Ministry, killed in Fallujah IED, returns to family in Chicago.