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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.
With the Shia cleric raising doubts over the legality of the elections he himself had won, there are signs that disparate political forces are manoeuvring to seal a deal that will finally see a government formed.
Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has continued to forge ahead with his ambitions of being the power behind Iraq's major political institutions, sowing chaos in the country until his demands are met.
Analysis: A deadly attack at a tourist site in Iraqi Kurdistan in July marked a turning point in bilateral ties, but the diplomatic crisis was decades in the making.
In a severely turbulent political environment, a newly leaked set of audio recordings of former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki insulting prominent leaders and inciting sectarian divisions threatens to destabilise Iraq even further.
Analysis: Iraq is on the verge of descending into chaos after Muqtada al-Sadr's withdrawal from the country's political system as anger over a lack of basic services and political deadlock threatens to boil over.
With the help of Saddam Hussein’s son, Waheb Tabra made a fortune smuggling cigarettes in the 1990s. Since the U.S. invasion, he has become a symbol of Iraq's corruption while dealing with everyone from top politicians to the Islamic State.
After failing to build a majority coalition, Sadr's mass resignation 'protest' move against systemic corruption will achieve little more than the further delegitimisation of Iraq's political processes.
In-depth: Despite its catastrophic consequences for the Iraqi people, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is celebrated in American consciousness as a victory, and consumerist glorifications of the war pervade US society.