2023
The plight of minorities in Iraq: violence, discrimination, and the
Some minorities are unrecognized, while others bear arms or resort to Taqiya (a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice) to ensure their security
11,000 families in the agony of waiting… What is the
Nawzat Shamdine – translated by Walaa Rayya Souad Ahmed (63 years old) spends hours of her day in her missing son's (Amjad) bedroom, talking to his pictures and smelling his clothes. Then she spreads her prayer mat on the floor, and with a crying voice, she prays for him to return to her, his wife, and his only son. These rituals have been a constant part of her life for nearly nine years. Amjad was a member of the local police before ISIS seized control of Mosul on June 10, 2014. He left with the withdrawing security forces towards Erbil,…
Suicide in Iraq … the Cover-Up for Femecide and a
Ahmad Al Rabihi and Hassan Al Nassiri / November 2020: 08.09.2The Iraqi police received a report recently of a bride’s suicide one day after her marriage, found hanging from a rope bound from the ceiling of her room … This investigation reveals the reasons for the escalation of suicides in Iraq, as well as how many murders of women end up recorded as suicides. On a sandalwood chair, in a small room at his grandmother’s house on the outskirts of al-Shatrah town, Ismael (29 years old) was found unconscious, his body bent over, with his head almost touching the ground. This…
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Poverty and persecution or faith… What drives the Lebanese to
Al-aalem Al-jadeed, Saman Daoud, translated by Walaa Rayya June 2022: On the dawn of Friday, January 21, 2022, ISIS militants surprised an Iraqi army company in the Hawi al-Azeem area in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad, and killed an officer with the rank of lieutenant and ten soldiers by small…
The story of the real estate theft in Mosul
Armed forces, parties, and powerful people possess more than 20,000 properties
“7 million pieces of weapons and hundreds of victims… weapons
The power of clans grows in the absence of the state and the presence of millions of uncontrolled weapons.
Turkey continues to burn the land of the Kurds… Attacks,
Under the pretext of an old security agreement with Saddam’s regime, Turkey overextend into the occupation of Iraqi lands, expropriating people and trees
The Alternative Syrian Passport… Non-Recognition and Explicit Corruption
June 2019: Kamal Oskan and Adam Al-Hussein After the formation of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (the transitional government headed by Ahmed Touma on 11/11/2013, a Syrian alternative passport was issued, or what is known as the Coalition passport issued by the Syrian…
Two years on, Syrians injured in Beirut port blast drown
August 2022: ‘How are we going to pay?’ On paper, the Lebanese government, UNHCR and international aid agencies were meant to cover medical costs for those injured in the August 4 explosion 2020 , including foreigners. But the injured tell a different story. Illustration by Rami Khoury Alicia Medina Alicia…
“Sadr City” has the largest parliamentary representation … A deprived
Hassan Nasiri / August It has been twenty years since the government employee of the Iraqi Ministry of Education, Baqir al-Halfi, is living with his family of eight in an old house of no more than 80 square meters, one of tens of thousands of similarly designed and built houses…
Yazidis in Iraq don’t have judges… they marry and inherit
Nineveh – Al-aalem Al-jadeed To formally document his marriage contract, Khidr, a 25 years old Yezidi man, had to provide the Personal Materials Court in the North area of Sinjar District (127 km west of Mosul) with a paper copy of the religious marriage contract concluded by the Yezidi Supreme…
