Results tagged “Middle East”

Israel Hayom - Friday December 23, 2011The final withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq this week raises the question of Baghdad's future role along Israel's eastern front. Historically, it is perhaps forgotten that Iraq was once a confrontation state. With remarkable consistency, Iraq, under various governments, dispatched one third of...

YISRAEL HAYOM     A critical issue that is being affected by the intention of the US to withdraw from Iraq is what will happen to the Kurdish autonomous areas that are formally still under Baghdad's control. Last week, the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat published a column saying that it might...