Inside Iraq

US com­bat troops are leav­ing the coun­try, but can the Iraqi army en­sure se­cu­ri­ty?

It may be sta­ble, pros­per­ous and vi­o­lence free, but the same ten­sions still sim­mer.

Is Iraq sta­ble and able to de­ter­mine its own fu­ture af­ter the with­draw­al of US troops?

A look at the grow­ing po­lit­i­cal as­sas­si­na­tions in the coun­try.

The cur­rent po­lit­i­cal con­di­tions in the coun­try may favour al-Qae­da’s resur­gence.

US vice pres­i­dent vis­its as Iraq’s ri­val par­ties wran­gle over form­ing a gov­ern­ment.

Why have suc­ces­sive gov­ern­ments failed to solve the elec­tric­i­ty is­sue?

Will the jour­nal­ist’s killers es­cape jus­tice and how would this im­pact the re­gion?

But three months af­ter its elec­tions, the coun­try is still with­out a gov­ern­ment.

Chi­nese com­pa­nies have emerged as Iraq’s largest in­vestor in the oil and gas sec­tor.