Liqaa Makki is a Senior Researcher at the Al Jazeera Center for Studies in Doha, Managing Editor of the Center's Lubab Peer-Reviewed Journal. Apolitical and a strategic analyst, Makki is interested in issues and crises in the Middle East, and relations between its countries. He possesses a PhD in Mass Communication, and he has worked as a professor of journalism at the universities of Baghdad and Qatar. He is also a journalist and executive producer for several newspapers and Al Jazeera. Makki has done a lot of research and studies on media and political issues, and he is a writer of articles and columns.
The Iraqi elections came out with important results that could change the map of power and influence in Iraq. This may affect its relations with the countries of the region, but the changes were less severe in the Kurdish Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) in the north of the country. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) continued to dominate the majority of Kurdish representation seats in the Federal Parliament, with the
On June 5, 2021, five members of the military forces of the Kurdish Regional Government of Iraq (KRG), the Peshmerga, were killed in an ambush set by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). This was the highest number of losses incurred by the Peshmerga at the hands of the PKK, which is considered by the United States, the European Union, and Turkey as a terrorist organization. This attack constituted a dramatic
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The Iraqi elections came out with important results that could change the map of power and influence in Iraq. This may affect its relations with the countries of the region, but the
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On June 5, 2021, five members of the military forces of the Kurdish Regional Government of Iraq (KRG), the Peshmerga, were killed in an ambush set by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
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