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Ali Khedery is chairman and chief executive of Dragoman Partners, an international strategic advisory firm. He was previously an executive with Exxon Mobil Corporation where he was the architect and chief political negotiator of the company’s historic billion-dollar entry into the Kurdistan Region. Deemed “one of the best-connected men in Iraq” in a Pulitzer finalist Reuters special report, Khedery also served as special assistant to five American ambassadors in Iraq and as senior adviser to …

Ali Khedery’s Journalist Portfolio

Why we stuck with Maliki - and lost in Iraq

Why we stuck with Maliki - and lost in Iraq

To understand why Iraq is imploding, you must understand Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - and why the United …

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Iraq's Last Chance

Iraq's Last Chance

"The country is in your hands," whispered Iraq's president, Fuad Masum, on Aug. 11 as he charged the newly de…

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How ISIS Came to Be

How ISIS Came to Be

Three years ago, the Islamic State (ISIS) did not exist; now it controls vast swaths of Syria and Iraq. Showi…

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Iran's Shiite Militias Are Running Amok in Iraq

Iran's Shiite Militias Are Running Amok in Iraq

It took the fall of Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, for Western elites to finally begin to understand what…

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Who Do You Wanna Bomb?

Who Do You Wanna Bomb?

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Lost in the Middle East

Lost in the Middle East

Dear President Obama: The Middle East is more unstable today than it has been in decades. Global energy suppl…

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Articles

Iraq in Pieces | Foreign Affairs

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By Ali Khedery
| Foreign Affairs
American leaders contemplating Iraq have made a habit of substituting unpleasant realities with rosy assessments based on questionable assumptions. In 1991, after the Gulf War, the George H. W. Bush administration hoped that Iraqis would rise up against Saddam Hussein and encouraged them to do so, only to abandon them to the Republican Guard.
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Iran’s Shiite Militias Are Running Amok in Iraq

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By Ali Khedery
| Foreign Policy Magazine
Countless memories haunt me after a decade of service in Iraq.
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The New York Times

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By Ali Khedery
| The New York Times
Mr. Abadi has inherited a country on the verge of collapse. Whether Iraq will shatter or be salvaged is not in his hands alone. It will depend on a dizzying number of other leaders, political parties, nonstate actors, and neighboring and global powers. IN accepting the post of prime minister, Mr. Abadi has essentially accepted the role of being the conductor of Iraq’s unruly political symphony.
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