This backgrounder provides the names of potentially disqualified seat winners and the consequences if the move is upheld.

ISW’s Best Practices in Counterinsurgency series examines pivotal COIN operations executed in Iraq by interviewing the soldiers who designed, participated in and led the successful missions.

This backgrounder provides an update on the political landscape in Iraq, the electoral process, and post-election government formation.

This backgrounder provides an update on the political developments in Iraq in advance of the March 7, 2010 parliamentary election.

This backgrounder documents the recent attempt to bar Sunni candidates from the upcoming parliamentary elections.

This backgrounder provides an assessment of the shifting political environment in Iraq as elections draw near.

This paper describes the structure of the KRG’s political bodies and offices, the major parties, and the mechanics of the July 25th election.

Following Iraq’s provincial council elections on January 31, 2009, the political parties that captured seats in the provinces of the mainly Shia south scrambled to form ruling alliances.

On April 19th, 2009, Iraq’s Council of Representatives successfully elected Ayad al-Samaraie as its new speaker of parliament.

On January 31, 2009, fourteen of Iraq’s eighteen provinces will hold provincial elections. This fact sheet provides information on the upcoming Provincial Elections.

This paper evaluates how the two groups, Asaib Ahl al-Haq and Special Groups are affiliated by testing four hypotheses about the relationship between the two organizations.

In the Shia dominated south of Iraq, a conflict is developing over political dominance in the upcoming provincial elections.

A backgrounder on the ongoing and often contentious SOFA negotiations.

Maliki's use of military force in Diyala Province to achieve his national political agenda.

Frederick W. Kagan provides his analysis of the fighting in August '08 and the geopolitical changes in its wake. The updates examine Russia’s relations with CIS members and Eastern Europe.

This backgrounder details the status of the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) three years on.

A backgrounder explaining why the Iraqi Accord Front recently returned to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ruling coalition.

This backgrounder details the fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq for control of Mosul from the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003 to early 2008.

A fact sheet on the performance of the Iraqi Security Forces in the recent Basra operations.

A fact sheet on the performance of the Iraqi Security Forces in the recent Sadr City operations.

Since June 2007, Multi-National Division - Center (MND-C) has been engaged in a large-scale effort to secure the Belts south and east of Baghdad.

This backgrounder details what the recent operations in southern Iraq reveal about the enemy system and the capacity of the Iraqi Security Forces.

This document contains articles, press releases, and Defense Department briefings from the last year that consider the nature of the relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda in Iraq.

This Backgrounder details the recent increase in Special Groups violence in Baghdad.

This backgrounder details al-Qaeda in Iraq’s shift to suicide bombings and the operations to dismantle the Diyala suicide bombing network.

Over the past year, Sons of Iraq groups and Awakening Forces have been instrumental in supporting Coalition and Iraqi Security Force attempts to deliver security to the Iraqi public.

The Institute for the Study of War has created this situation report to document the developments in Iraq from January 2007 to December 2007.

Over the last year, Coalition and Iraqi Forces made significant progress fighting al Qaeda in Iraq. This Backgrounder provides a brief summary of operations against al Qaeda in 2007.

Coalition offensive operations in the southern and eastern belts of Baghdad from 6/2007 - 1/2008 have worked to support ongoing security operations within the city.

This backgrounder details the conduct of Raider Harvest and its potential impact on security in northern Diyala province.

The operations against Al-Qaeda in Iraq near Muqdadiyah in Diyala Province in December provided U.S. forces with the intelligence they needed to begin the new Iron Harvest offensive in January 2008.

Report on the intra-Shia violence between the Sadrist Trend and ISCI in Diwaniyah from April to December of 2007

Over the last year, Saydiyah has become one of the principal battlegrounds for the territorial war between Shi'a militias and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in Baghdad.

The brigade responsible for most of Diyala in 2007 is rotating home, beginning the drawdown of U.S. troops. Yet force levels in Diyala will remain constant.

Wahash and Iskan constitute a key conflict zone between Shi'a and Sunni militias in West Baghdad.

The Rusafa security district provides an interesting look at a complex Baghdad neighborhood with strategic significance and changing demographics.

The refrain of ‘concerned citizens’ and ‘reconciliation’, so familiar in the news emanating from places like Anbar and Diyala, has found a degree of resonance in the Iraqi capital.

They call themselves Farsan Al Rafidayn, the Knights of the Two Rivers. And in Ameriya, a formerly wealthy district of western Baghdad, they have turned on al Qaeda,

Baghdad's Mansour district shows the competition between enemy groups for territory in Baghdad, the effect of the troop surge, and problems with Iraqi governance.

This is the first in a series of reports profiling the units of the 6th Iraqi Army Division. The units discussed here are located west and south of Baghdad.

Phantom Strike, a series of targeted joint operations against al Qaeda, Sunni, and Shi'a insurgent elements in Baghdad and the surrounding areas, was launched on August 13, 2007.

What began in Anbar as a local movement of tribes is developing into a national phenomenon.

The 8th Iraqi Army Division (IAD), commanded by Major General Othman Farhood, is based ninety miles southeast of Baghdad in Diwaniyah.

This backgrounder provides a bulletized summary of Operation Phantom Thunder.

This order of battle describes U.S. forces involved in Operation Phantom Thunder.

Al-Qaeda blew up a bridge on Sunday using a suicide truck bomb, the latest in a series of attacks against bridges in Baghdad and the “belts” of territory surrounding the capital.