Rumors of an imminent resignation of the Iraqi prime minister emerged after nationalist Shi'a cleric Muqtada al Sadr made a dramatic return to Iraq and joined escalating protests in Najaf. Transcript forthcoming.Ĭrisis Brief: The Ouster of Iraq's Prime Minister Looks Imminent (Update #9 - October 29, 2019) Listen on Apple, Spotify, SoundCloud, and Stitcher. ISW Research Director Jennifer Cafarella discusses three possible trajectories for Iraq's future. This direct intervention by Iran signals the potential for a more violent Iranian crackdown against Iraqi protesters. Iranian proxy leader Hadi al Ameri reversed his position on the ousting of the Iraqi prime minister under the direction of the Iranian IRGC Quds Force commander. Protests in Iraq have continued to grow after resuming on October 25th. ISW's Director of Innovation and Tradecraft Ketti Davison recaps how we got here and discusses the possibility for prolonged instability due to an emerging violent cycle of the protester movement.Ĭrisis Brief: Iraqi Protests Grow After Iran Intervenes to Prevent the Prime Minister's Ouster (Update #10 - November 7, 2019) The second round of Iraqi protests is entering its third week. ISW's Iraq experts Katherine Lawlor and Brandon Wallace offer their take on the political stagnation, proxy conflicts, and increased violence they expect to see moving into the new year.Ĭrisis Brief: The Emerging Violent Cycle of Iraqi Protests (Update #11- November 13, 2019) Meanwhile, Iran's proxies in Iraq continue to attack three groups - protesters, nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his supporters, and the U.S.-led Coalition - in order to drive political action in Iran's favor. Iraq's political elites have scrambled to find a replacement to Mehdi, who was himself a compromise candidate, and have so far failed to achieve consensus on either a new prime minister or any meaningful concessions to the protesters. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mehdi resigned on November 29 following a renewed outbreak of violence against protesters and the withdrawal of support by Shi'a religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Iraq Crisis Brief: Proxy Violence and Political Stagnation Following the Resignation of Iraq's Prime Minister (Update #12- December 20, 2019) Iran experts Nicholas Carl and Kyra Rauschenbach of the American Enterprise Institute's Critial Threats Project and Iraq experts Brandon Wallace and Katherine Lawlor of the Institute for the Study of War brief what you need to know to make sense of the coming news cycle. interests in Iraq and across the Middle East. embassy in Baghdad, the killing of an American contractor by Iranian proxy militias, and a months-long escalation in Iranian rocket attacks on U.S. This strike follows an Iranian proxy militia attack on the U.S. Soleimani was a designated terrorist and the second most powerful person in Iran. The United States killed Iranian IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani and several senior proxy militia officials in a Baghdad drone strike on.
Iraq Crisis Brief: What You Need to Know Following the Death of Iranian IRGC Quds Force Commander Soleimani (Update #13- January 3, 2020) In this Overwatch Crisis Brief recorded on March 13, ISW’s Iraq experts Nicholas Heras, Katherine Lawlor, and Brandon Wallace discuss the implications for the U.S.-led coalition’s relationship with Iraqi security forces and the increasing cooperation between Iran’s proxy groups.
Today, another rocket attack targeted the Taji base. base in Taji, north of Baghdad, on March 11, triggering an immediate U.S.
Kata'ib Hezbollah fired rockets at a U.S. Iran’s proxies are again escalating against U.S. Iraq Crisis Brief: Iranian Proxies Escalate Against U.S.
In this episode of Overwatch, Middle East Security Program Manager Nicholas Heras and Iraq Research Assistant Katherine Lawlor discuss Iran’s ongoing campaign to shape Iraq into a state that serves Iran’s geopolitical interests. These efforts aim to wear down US forces and eventually compel their withdrawal from Iraq. Iran’s proxy network in Iraq has escalated rocket attacks, stood up at least four new Shi’a militia groups, and diversified its targets and methods of attack. Iraq Crisis Brief: Iranian Proxies Expand Efforts to Oust US Forces from Iraq (Update #15- April 15, 2020) This set of episodes covers the situation in Iraq following the emergence of protests in early October 2019.
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