Winthrop Rodgers

Analysis: As US-Saudi airstrikes threaten to drag Iraq deeper into the Iran war, Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi's room for manoeuvre is rapidly narrowing

Analysis: One of Iraq's most powerful armed groups is quietly recasting itself as an indispensable political broker

The position of Iraq's president is largely ceremonial, but might that balance begin to shift under Nizar Amidi's tenure?

Analysis: Waves of drone and missile strikes have sown economic chaos across Iraqi Kurdistan, while sharpening political tensions between Erbil and Baghdad

Amid conflicting media reports, Iran's Kurds are in the spotlight. What they do next – as allies, bystanders, or proxies – could be key to the war's next phase

Fighting in Aleppo and Iran's protests reinforce both the centrality of Kurds in the changes taking place in the Middle East and the precarity of their position

With Sunni and Shia blocs in rough consensus over the parliament speaker and prime minister, Kurdish parties are yet to agree on their selection for president

The election delivered orderly polling but a fractured parliament, leaving Iraq's power brokers to hash out alliances behind closed doors

Ten months after the elections, the prospect of a new government in Iraqi Kurdistan seems as remote as ever, pointing to a deeper institutional malaise