MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On the night of June 25-26 Iraqi security forces raided an Iranian-backed group. This is an unprecedented incident a...

By KAREEM BOTANE Major-General Yahya Rasoul, Spokesman of the Iraqi Security Forces “In 2014 it was a retrogression for Iraqi army, but w...

For the previous edition of our coverage of US-Iran tensions daily updates, see this link March 22-May 1, 2020. May 1 Rocket fire from Is...

Kinani: If the foreign forces remained in Iraqi despite Iraq government order for them to withdraw - there will be another language for ...

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN and MECRA STAFF Iraq's powerful Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha'abi) are in the midst of a struggle over wh...

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The US-led Coalition handed over an area of K-1 Air Base on Sunday, the third post in a week handed over to Iraqi Se...

The US and Iran are preparing for a new round in Iraq.

Since the last edition (March 21-26) and the March 11 of the Middle East Coronavirus Daily Update (MECDU) we have seen major rises in the...

Read our previous installment March 12-21, 2020 of the daily updates of US-Iran tensions at this link. March 22 A look at the satellite p...

Coronavirus threatens the Middle East

Compiled by Seth J. Frantzman and Kareem Botane Who is Adnan al-Zarfi (Zurufi عدنان الزرفي), the man tasked with forming yet another Ira...

March 11 7:35pm (Baghdad time): Rockets strike Camp Taji, Iraq. 8:26pm (Baghdad time) Iraqi security forces release images of the truck a...

Coronavirus threatens the Middle East

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A rocket attack on Camp Taji Iraq on march 11 has killed Americans and has led to tensions in Iraq. CENTCOM says "Th...

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani (علی شمخانی) made a high profi...

This timeline is the second part of a timeline that goes back to 2017, see the first part here. It seeks to include details about rising ...

Interviews with KAREEM BOTANE What follows are three interviews conducted in the streets of southern Iraq during the period leading up to...

On February 21 reports indicated that Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed in a US airstrike on January 3, would finally be replaced in ...

A rocket attack directed at a Coalition base near the US embassy on the night of February 15-16 raises concerns about recent threats to ...

Iraq’s protests: “No one cares about us, but we will not stop our revolution” What follows is an interview with a protester in Iraq condu...