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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state” in the Al-Hol camp… assassinations, torture sites, koranic schools
“Revenge, tribal rulings, and popular rejection keep the majority of Iraqis in the Al-Hol camp
The popularity of the sale of academic research at the
Bookstores are spread among the faculties’ buildings of Damascus University, offering research to students and even professors in exchange for money, in a popular trade that has been expanding for years. Dropping out of a university tells another story, including bribes for professors and students who are victims of sexual…
Baghdad real estate… “Money-laundering” machine for politicians, militias, and sanctions
Corruption, money laundering, and the reluctance of government projects raise real estate prices in one of the world’s worst capital in terms of services.
Deciphering the competition for Syrian oil (2)
Political dimensions of a mysterious oil development deal in northeastern Syria
Deciphering the competition for Syrian oil (1)
What we know and don’t know about a ‘mysterious’ US oil company in northeastern Syria
Under the umbrella of Popular Mobilization, Economic offices of armed
Widespread corruption at government offices in Nineveh
A mosque or a church? What did UNESCO discover under
Discovery under the ruins of Al-Nouri Mosque where Al-Baghdadi preached and that was blown up by ISIS
It only happens in Kurdistan…Women receive military ranks and filed
Erbil – Al-aalem Al-jadeed – Translated by Walaa Rayya Kurdish military retirees, men, and women are forced to stand for hours in long queues in front of the payment outlets in the retirement department in Erbil governorate, capital of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, waiting for their turn to receive…
