iraqis wondered why. he recently asked the members back in the body and publicly stated he was trying to pressure his and they went against recommendation. he's lost a lot of trust with parties specifically based on the actions over the last year. so as you look at these u.s. engagement in iraq, you are comparing the narratives that everything is okay. i heard something from dod today believe.uldn't the u.s. has more influence in baghdad than iran does and we've stronger with the kurds than we are now. and i can't disagree with those narratives more. what are your thoughts? >> yeah. no. would probably dis agree a little bit with that. you know, i think a number of are important to remember here is that iran is very difficult to compete with terms of conducting policy. we have rules, protocol, and law a lot more flexibility, because there's not really -- it states.eally bound by and it has been building a decades.hip for the soldiersngside the war.enches in how do you address that? >> you ignore that. you

involvement in iraqi security operations. the hudson institute organized this event. >>> okay, thanks for coming to the hudson institute today. my name is michael pregent. i am a senior fellow here. i would like to introduce the panel. vivian salama will be mod rating. now with the "wall street journal." a lot of time in the middle east. she is the right person to moderate because she can hold us to our answers and poke holes in what we have to say. to my left, bilal wahab of the washington institute. always a pleasure to have you here. >> thank you. >> wearing a nice seersucker suit. we are going to have an all sear suck isser panel one day. and ahmad majidyar. thank you for being here. i am going to hands it over to you. and we can gwynn. >> thank you all for joining us. i am always happy to competent about a country that is very near to my heart. iraq. i was ap's iraq bureau chief until 2016. so it is a place that i know well and love. for those of you who are not following the day to day very closely, just a recap. it's b

when i say iraqis i mean all the iraqis that with in the moment. it started with causes done all the way to russia. they are frustrated with a political leap and do not see the political elite is playing an unproductive role and leaving the country but they also see, as you mentioned other countries playing a role not in the interest of iraq. in the case of basra, i was surprised the consulate was burned down. this is a mind -- milestone. down.is literally, burned i thought i sent a strong message throughout the country about how iraqis see the foreign influences of different countries. there was an attempt to go after the u.s. consulate. >> but not from the protesters. attributedever been but somebody tried to go there but there was a strong push to prevent that. that sends a strong message about the position of the u.s. and buzz run because of iraqis these days. perspectivesns and change about the role of the u.s. courses from all three, i remember when i was in baghdad may have 2003, started performing about the presence of the u.s. so there is

what does this mean to iraqi? >> he was on this panel, we had this two months ago, he is very aware of resurgence in iraq and syria. and concerned about creeping uranium in both countries. >> i think it's the administration paying, obviously you cannot work with syria in isolation from the countries where he served in the past. i hope this is a sign that the administration is finally putting its act together when it comes to having a clear message, a serious diplomat, as well as he is a realize that's realist, he goes in with eyes -- he is a realist, he goes in with eyes wide open. and to stabilize syria, to work with iraq, turkey and russia and with iran. since we are talking about iraq, i think one area where iraq is been an advantage has been the policy has been where the focus is solely on sanctions. or the policy where the focus is on security and military. but by having him in charge, he will have a holistic view and that comprehensive view of looking at policy. but also his knowledge of policies in iraq and

you know it was a dominant political force in the iraqi political scene is the iraqi islamic party, which also dominated since 2005 when everybody said go vote. now, -- >> can you tell them what iip stands for quick >> it is the i -- it is the iraqi islamic party. >> so now we're looking at a very strong competition within the iraq shiite seen about the future and what it means. what iraq means for -- >> don't iraqis consider a body part of this dow are machine? >> i think at the moment, yes. a month and a half ago, -- actually two months ago, before the beginning of these protest. now, he is widely seen as part of the political environment. i think that when they picked it up by mid-june, july 12, -- >> will any rejection of malik he and -- has a been a schism between the state of law and -- i do not mean to monopolize, but i followed this closely. the relationship between vice president and the prime minister are very close. if it comes down to making sure one is weaker or if they are sidelining -- he is been -- the dollar has been -- the -- they are trying to establish a political part

form to make some sort of arrows and some some sort of acceptance from the iraqi. people against this government in about let's say one year after one year we can make the whole government it's a theory that iran can depend on. i'm not sure it's true or not but it looks like that the next iraqi government will have so many problems to deal with if there will be no profit in their work there will be so many things will happen to this to this government has a lot riding on it many thanks for joining us there from istanbul. now one hours of every eighteen migrants who tried to cross the mediterranean this year has died that's according to the un refugee agency and with people smugglers now taking greater risks he says he says european leaders must do more to try to save their lives which are a case of the reports. these images of three year old alan curtis body shocked people around the world it was a reminder of the human cost of the syrian war and the refugee crisis three years on the dangers faced by other refugees trying to get to europe have increased a report by

government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of their various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is secured toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the at ethnic or sectarian interest of one particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that iraqi society is facing remains to be seen you talk about the immense challenges just just how difficult will it be to to govern iraq what i mean of the the the stakes how high the stakes here. well the stakes are are huge you know your rock is a failed state it's been deeply affected by a sectarian war by the rise of isis which has been you know crushed but not comprehensively i think defeated. and some of the you know key challenges. that iraqis are facing are the no

that the iraqis, and the iraqi prosecutors, the man who i'd —— prosecuted saddam hussein, identifiedussein, identified 11. autopsies were not performed on the bodies because of the muslim tradition of burying within 24 hours. that said, there have been over 85,000 iraqi civilians killed since this tragedy. but, with respect, that is not your problem. the problem is that your country was responsible for these deaths, described by the attorney for the district of colombia last —— colombia at one of the trials, he said it was an outrageous attack with devastating concentrate —— consequences are so many with devastating concentrate —— consequences are so many families. he said that as the verdict was announced he said i pray this verdict will bring some sense of comfort to the survivors of what he called a massacre prosecutors can say whatever they need to to win a case. but it has not been clear, even within the courts at washington, dc, the first time that prosecutors brought charges it was thrown out for misconduct. the second time was overturned in an appeals court because the prosec

since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is cured toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the at ethnic or sectarian interest of one particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that iraqi society is facing remains to be seen the stakes are are huge you know your rock is a failed state it's. been deeply affected by a sectarian war by the rise of isis which has been you know crushed but not comprehensively i think defeated and some of the you know key challenges. that iraqis are facing are the normal things that developing societies struggle with unemployment corruption the delivering of public services in southern iraq for several months now there have been ongoing p

since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is cured toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the ethnic or sectarian interest of one particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that iraqi society is facing remains to be seen the stakes are are huge you know your rock is a failed state it's. been deeply affected by a sectarian war by the rise of isis which has been you know crushed but not comprehensively i think defeated and some of the you know key challenges. that iraqis are facing are the normal things that developing societies struggle with unemployment corruption the delivering of public services in southern iraq for several months now there have been ongoing prot

but the iraqis, and the iraqi prosecutor, the guy that prosecuted saddam, identified 11.ere was not even autopsies performed on any of the bodies because of the muslim tradition of burying within 2a hours. that being said, there's been more than 85,000 iraqi civilians killed since the nisour square tragedy. but that's not, with respect, your problem. the problem is that your company was responsible for these deaths, described by the attorney for the district of colombia, ronald machenjr, at one of the trials of the personnel that you employed, he said: "it was an outrageous attack with devastating consequences for so many iraqi families". and he said, as the verdict was announced on some of your men, he said, "i pray this verdict will bring some sense of comfort to the survivors of what he called a massacre." sure. prosecutors can say whatever they need to to win a case. but it has not been clear, even within the courts in washington, dc. the first time that prosecutors brought charges it was thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct. the second time, it was overturned in a

the iraqi government didn't recognize those results. in response to the vote, it launched an offensive in october last year to retake disputed areas that the kurds controlled. the two sides briefly clashed, and the kurds subsequently withdrew north, leaving behind a security vacuum. >> ( translated ): isis will always exist in iraq and in syria, and that's because of the political instability in the region. >> reporter: dler ghazi worksco for the kurdisterterrorism service. he was in charge of security in tuz khurmatu for 10 years, until the iraqi government forced his unit to withdraw mest october. t him in the kurdish city of suleiman. >> ( translated ): the presence of isis in our area is because of the security vacuum between us, f the governmentaqi kurdistan, and the government of iraq. and in addion there's a tical crisis between us that has allowed such groups to spring up between our borders. g>> reporter:hazi agrees to ta us to the kurdish areas that have been most affected by isis' resurgence. i want tomore about how isis oper

since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is geared toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the at ethnic or sectarian interest of one point particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that you rocky society is facing remains to be seen the stakes are are huge you know your rock is a failed state it's. been deeply affected by a sectarian war by the rise of isis which has been you know crushed but not comprehensively i think defeated and some of the you know key challenges. that iraqis are facing are the normal things that developing societies struggle with unemployment corruption the delivering of public services. in southern iraq for several months now there have be

demonstrators bent in their anger about iran's alleged involvement in iraqi politics and it's payday as they say to deliver key services to the city. earlier they chanted political parties out remain sprit and we will never be humiliated people here believe the politicians have turned their backs on that neglecting government corruption has caused a systematic decay of its infrastructure yes yes i don't know why i'm living comfortably at parliament and inside the greens and while we're out here dying of hunger and thirst why are young people and graduates in the market selling onions all the government jobs are restricted to the parties. at least fifteen buildings connected to politics in the oath or it is have been targeted in the past few days this is the shell of the provincial government offices. some iraqis have been killed him what's regarded as iraq's shia muslim heartland in northern bass where hundreds of people were attending a funeral. these are protesters. protesting unemployment the water crisis the bad services how dad how to kill them would never allow. during friday p

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the foreign ministry condemned these attacks and said that the iraqi government needs to find out who is responsible and they demanded the maximum penalty for this crime and they also some of the iraqi ambassador to teheran to protest the burning down of this consulate now the foreign ministry spokesman said that this action was an attempt by overt or perhaps covert actors to try to drive a wedge between iraq and iran and hurt the historically friendly relations that the two countries have enjoyed so while he did seem to place blame on perhaps forces outside of government control for this happening in the same breath he also said that not protecting this diplomatic mission was a failure of the iraqi government and he said that the police in basra should have done more to secure this iranian facility now the spokesman of the parliamentary committee for national security and foreign policy has also made a statement and said that the parliament will investigate exactly what led to the destruction of the iranian consulate in bus routes so political leaders and government federal leaders h

of the middle east iraqis may finally be getting a working parliament m.p.'s elected a new speaker on saturday ending months of political deadlock but concern is growing the control of iraq's politics may be swinging towards pro iranian parties matheson from baghdad. after months of political deadlock since the last election iraq's parliament may be growing into gear m.p.'s have finally elected a new speaker of the house he's mohamad a sunni muslim with strong support from the parliament's pro around the shia coalition. we need to unify our efforts some members of parliament can reach political consensus and choose our government capable of facing the serious security and economic challenges ahead other posts are expected to be filled soon including the president who will be kurdish according to political tradition he will ask the leader of the biggest parliamentary bloc to be prime minister and to form a cabinet there are three main blocs to choose from the pro iran shia coalition headed by former prime minister nouri al maliki and. who's head of the fetter

a step forward i think there is some hope amongst some in the region and the iraqi kurdistan region that the stranglehold of the two main parties that you mentioned in your report the katie and the p u k will be somewhat attenuated in the latter i'm afraid i think. those hopes are more likely to be disappointed i was going to ask you about that the results of the elections are still being counted but already a lot of tensions divisions between the two main political players and has always been an uneasy leadership agreement among the cars as we heard chani report there do you think this vote and its outcome will help the existing divisions zero zero will it on the contrary further exacerbate that. afraid that it's hard to be optimistic under the current scenario i think that they. very often before elections are announced people who expect not to do well in the elections talk to complain about fraud now that's not to say fraud didn't take place i am not taking a position as to whether there was or was not electoral fraud we would have to wait for the facts to be on there. but it's not un

and iraqi forces were conducting air raid turned to the old city. traders are now slowly appearing to and with some semblance of normality. jawad as family lives in one of the countless narrow alleyways the militants chose to hunker down here where no tanks could enter drawing the iraqi army into a devastating fight for every street and every house by then the family had already left otherwise they would almost certainly have been killed. the twenty five year old is now living with her parents jawad whose father is out of work her brother picks up odd jobs wherever he can. her fifteen dollars a day is now an important source of income for her extended family comprising thirteen people. and her daughter cooked vegetables for dinner. they can't afford meat her husband used to be the main breadwinner but now he's gone. so not that he was hit by shrapnel in the head and shoulder and he died. it was from a missile at least i still have the children when my husband had work we would have something to eat but when he couldn't get work we would go hungry th

the hands of the so-called islamic state the militant group adopted a scorched earth policy in the iraqi city of mosul burning books on mass so that nothing of value would be left to the enemy. to rescue what he could. but offer the need it could shift for me these cultural assets mean everything that the basis for building a new future generation that is progressive well educated and has clear goals and. other wasn't the worst thing about i asked ruling it was that they destroyed our culture rather than for motoring it they ban books and then burn them up. omagh is one of many heroes to stand up half to the trauma inflicted by islamic states brutal reign of terror. like oh mom many here just want their lives back. lives filled with art music entertainment and fun everything that i.a.s. set out to destroy. is cycling from western mosul which is almost completely destroyed to the eastern part of the city on the other side of the river tigris their destruction is less widespread the bridges near the old one was destroyed during the nine month battle for the city when the iraqi army return

but the british were not the only ones after iraqi oil. as disaffection with the british grew the germans promoted hitler as a liberator. and in one thousand nine hundred three my camp was translated into arabic. i met sure the nash a was a child in basra. there was a famous see. but in the sky it clearly on the ground miss year whether i missed a lovely summer or feel of the vehicle for. its own separate bomb. the nazis key arab supporter the grand mufti of jerusalem came to baghdad in one thousand thirty nine. the jews did not understand what happened in iraq. with the mufti and with the influence of the narcisse during the thirty years they are in danger to us our intention. to move to moved into this house on the banks of the tigris in baghdad next door to david's family the dangour was. in early one nine hundred forty one the move to hit. your excellences great fear of. the palestinian problem has united all that up states and the mutual hatred of the english and the jews. that ups are willing to shed their blood in the holy war and t

they surrendered when iraqi forces liberated the area, and are currently imprisoned. self, and the rest of her family, were accused of being isis collaborators by association, and were transferred to this camp an hour east of hawija. but she insists that she has nothing to do with isis. >> what is our guilt? i know nothing about my son, i know nothing about my husband. my son made mistakes and paid the price for that. he went and handed himself in to the authorities. what about us as women? it's not fair to be treated like this. >> reporter: the iraqi government forces families of isis suspects to stay in these closely guarded camps, claiming that aeieturn to villages would help isis to spread again. but camps or no camps for its alleged supporters, isis is re- establishing itself.d ny civilians say that with no real protection from the government, they fee have little choice but to comply with the terrorists' demands. we meet another farmer who says ma has interacted with isi times since their official defeat in 2017. first, he says, a militant, whom he recognized as

as iraqi friend in power. but the. hester's are by no means fond of iran either hundreds attacked tehran's embassy in basra chanting i ran out leaving and then fern know in their way. some shifts in parliament have meant good news for tehran though once and to raney and cleric all solder suddenly had a change of heart an increasingly influential figure in iraqi politics who initially agreed to support a body is all for a government with a pro iranian bloc now. but what was trump special envoy brett mcgurk up to in iraq there sure were a lot of meetings and talks to win iraqis back to the right side even his boss mike pompei appraised his work just broke with britain the good who's on the ground in baghdad representing me imposed just doing a great job forming a strong iraqi government to a national basis is essential to the ensuring defeat devices except he didn't do that great of a job as you can see the score still two three iran. middle east expert paul haroon believes iran seeking any potential support to combat th

iran summons iraq's ambassador after its consulates was torched during protests in the southern iraqi city of basra. my name's peter w. watching al-jazeera live from my headquarters here in doha also coming up turkey warns it will not watch from the sidelines if an offensive against syria's last major rebel held area leads to civilian deaths. a third cut in aid in as many weeks the trumpet ministration pulls twenty five million dollars meant for specialist medical care for palestinians plus. i'm joined now in sweden a country anticipating its most important election in years the battle over values and identity with the rise of the far right. iran's minister for foreign affairs of some of the iraqi ambassador rafter protesters in iraq's southern city of bones for an attack the iranian consulate a week of violent demonstrations has seen several major buildings in the city being torched at least twelve people have died security forces blamed unidentified gunman for the deaths correspondent zain bus ravi is in tehran zain what's the iranian reaction to this. well overnight peter the forei

mentioned before that the long term unemployment that the country's been facing for so long so the iraqi parliament still struggling to find some sort of way forward in this the prime minister that all about he has made a couple of suggestions he's calling them decisions but one is to exclude from making several financial obligations to the rest of the country the idea being of course that to keep the money and then try and work on solving its own problems also no live ammunition to be used by iraqi forces against protesters and saying the protesters do have the right to peacefully protest without trespassing on state owned facilities he also had this to say about what's been happening. we should draw a distinction between the political factors and the other issues namely security and services unfortunately events have developed rapidly since the parliament's first session of monday last as a result of the escalating political wrangling which if turned into armed confrontations will be gravely dangerous we are keen on steering away from plunging into such danger now the situation in a ba

security forces so the iraqi kurds are they participated in iraq's may elections in order to be more reengage with the iraqi politics on one hand and now they have a local regional election for a new government to to be formed these two are not necessarily in sync parties need to be united in baghdad vs every the sunnis in the shia while this election actually created more fracture within the kurdish house even used the word repercussions and one of the factors was the parliament reduced the budget quite significantly for kurdistan how much can they get some of that money back now and how critical is it that they do. so the game plan of the kurds is done is sadly to sit down and negotiate these issues but rather to have the right people in the iraqi government and position them in positions of power so they can negotiate better deals. as the government is being formed so rather than negotiating on issues all the rhetoric of the kurdish politicians the negotiators is a question of you know we follow or interest and we follow all. we work with whatever party political party or blog tha

the iraqi authorities declaring the country free of islamic state almost a year ago we report on how the terror group remains active across large swathes of the country. and my son and. i knew. my brother was killed after he was kidnapped and. terrorists. international twenty four seven news and analysis from moscow my name's called in brighton am here monday morning start of a new week let's bring you up to speed on sweden's most significant election in decades the right wing sweden democratic party has won its largest share of the votes in a general election dominated by concerns over immigration. so with nearly all the ballots counted the sweden democrats took over seventeen percent of the vote which they see as a major breakthrough but it was a disappointing night for the ruling social democrats with just twenty eight percent it is the lowest result in a century swedish moderate so that as you can see in second place with nearly twenty percent with no clear leader the result paves the way for the legacy to go see a chance now of forming a governing coalition a prime minister's ca

the foreign ministry condemned these attacks and said that the iraqi government needs to find out who is responsible and they demanded the maximum penalty for this crime and he also some of the iraqi ambassador to tehran to protest the burning down of this consulate now the foreign ministry spokesman said that this action was an attempt by overt or perhaps covert actors to try to drive a wedge between iraq and iran and hurt the historically friendly relations that the two countries have enjoyed so while he did seem to place blame on perhaps forces outside of government control for this happening in the same breath he also said that. not protecting this diplomatic mission was a failure of the iraqi government and he said that the police in basra should have done more to secure this iranian facility now the spokesman of the parliamentary committee for national security and foreign policy has also made a statement and said that the parliament will investigate exactly what led to the destruction of the iranian consulate in basra so political leaders and government federal leaders here are

the find in the southern iraqi city of basra may be under threats on groups backed by iran have vowed to track down protesters who set fire to their offices over the past week iraqi prime minister hydrilla body has visited the city where people say corruption and neglect are destroying their lives rob matheson has more from baghdad. under pressure to resign the prime minister hide the body or arrives in the southern iraqi city of basra where protesters say his government is to blame for much of the corruption and neglect which have destroyed their water and power supplies and left thousands without jobs. what happened in a bathrobe was one hundred percent true to a political conflict unfortunately some political blocs have military wings and some of them wanted to burn down power throw off but thankfully there was stopped by the cooperation of the peaceful civilians yet they're going to get a body is facing calls for him to step down over the crisis in basra the iraqi government is deadlocked disputes over the result of an election in may have left politicians wrangling over power in

expertise foundation he's also a former advisor to the speaker of the iraqi parliament and he spoke to us a little bit earlier from istanbul on the said he is hopeful the parliament could provide much needed change for the country. it's a new era in the in the political process in iraq we are now seeing not a one united shot bloc we are seeing two blocks that they are asking the sunni and the kurds to join them which show you that we are stuck and we are actually going forward in this step forward in the political process now how the our leaders how and how the iraqi leaders can manage this new situation this is the most important thing not to cook's like it's not a one shot it's not only this session it's not only the coming days maybe want to see so many changes in a few months the most important things that everyone is saying if the iraqi the iraqi government didn't have some sort of a soft government or let's say some sort of a solved structure like the prime minister needs to do to speak english to have a ph d. and also to have some sort of a support from the international comm

the city of basra in iraq is now under curfew but iraqi politicians are still struggling to find some sort of solution to the violence that has hit the city over the last few days but today's meeting of the iraqi parliament is like every other meeting of this iraqi parliament that have been accusations there's been finger pointing and there's been a lot of blame the but there's been no tangible solution to the problems that the city of basra is facing the reason for that is very simple since may this parliament has effectively been blocked it's been deadlocked and that's because there was no result of the election that happened in may that everybody could agree on therefore nobody up until this point has been prepared to agree on anything this is made of course the people are very angry because they are hoping to get money from the government to the prime minister that all the body has promised them will help them through the circumstances that they're facing but as the arguments go on in the iraqi parliament that money too is deadlocked now the big concern for the people in and aroun

the rebels in yemen say fifteen people have been killed in saudi and iraqi led coalition airstrikes in the port city if it dated at least three protesters including a fourteen year old boy had been shot dead by israeli fire during friday protest the gaza's border with israel. north and south korea have opened a joint liaison office in the north border town of chi song and establishes a permanent chinle of communication for two nations that have no formal diplomatic relations it comes just days before south korean president joy in the north korean leader kim jong un for a second time for me has more. another step towards cooperation and perhaps pianist's officials from north and south korea officially open an office in the border town of in north korea. starting from today. and discuss issues regarding the improvement of israel relations and prosperity of the three interviews twenty four hours and three hundred sixty five days we will meet face to face and to exchange ideas and solve difficult problems together. it's a first for the two countries who are technically still at war when th