Salah Nasrawi

With a new pres­i­dent, the US needs a bold Iraq ini­tia­tive to move be­yond the wreck­age left by pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tions.

ISIL’s Kirkuk on­slaught serves as a re­minder that Iraq is still in the grip of war with a fe­ro­cious en­e­my.

What will the Iraqi gov­ern­ment do with its hard-won mil­i­tary vic­to­ry in Fal­lu­jah to make it po­lit­i­cal­ly sus­tain­able?

The trail of Bin Laden’s lega­cy has been long and over­whelm­ing.

Iraq’s PM pre­sent­ed his new cab­i­net line-up to par­lia­ment, but po­lit­i­cal cri­sis is un­like­ly to go away.

Muq­ta­da al-Sadr has grand am­bi­tions for Iraq, and self-con­fi­dence to match. But he has yet to show how he will de­liv­er.

Muham­mad Has­sanein Heikal was well-recog­nised for his dis­tin­guished ca­reer in jour­nal­ism and po­lit­i­cal ex­pe­ri­ence.

The move re­in­forces wor­ries about a creep­ing par­ti­tion­ing of Iraq.

As Iraq braced for war with the US, Iraqi AP re­porter Salah Nas­rawi was torn be­tween jour­nal­is­tic duty and pa­tri­o­tism.

A vic­to­ry against ISIL will de­pend on an in­clu­sive Iraqi gov­ern­ment and new na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty forces.