Iraq Report

On 21 July 2017, Iraq's second city Mosul was liberated from the Islamic State after three years of brutal rule. But has the traumatised city recovered?

A decade since the Islamic State declared its 'caliphate' in Iraq and Syria, its legacy of violence continues to shape the country's path towards recovery.

The 2014 Speicher massacre continues to significantly impact Iraqi politics today, a full decade later. Here's why

As Iraq marks 20 years since the US invasion, the effects continue to be felt in the political instability, corruption, and sectarian violence plaguing the country.

Ongoing sectarian and bureaucratic issues continue to hamper efforts at national reconciliation in Iraq, while the development of new ports has flared geopolitical tensions with Iran.

Thousands of mostly Sunni Iraqis are thought to have been extrajudicially killed by Baghdad-sanctioned but Tehran-controlled Shia militias during the fight against the Islamic State.

Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is part and parcel of the system that many Iraqis have called to reform or replace, with his appointment unlikely to resolve the root causes behind popular anger repeatedly flaring up over the past 19 years.

With support for the political process at an all-time low, the popular foundation of what constitutes an Iraqi democracy is now in peril and may be at risk of total collapse.

Five years after the defeat of the Islamic State, Iraq's government is ostracising over one million internally displaced Iraqis, predominantly Sunni Arabs, by ensuring they are denied formal identity papers.

Iraq’s political instability has escalated into deadly fighting between supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr and pro-Iran militias. But the violence is far from unprecedented, and historical patterns suggest an imminent Iranian intervention.