2024
Documents Found After the Fall of Assad Show Syrian Intelligence
A file discovered at General Intelligence Directorate headquarters details an operation to investigate SIRAJ, a Syrian journalist collective that is part of the OCCRP network.
Oil fields and war remnants raise cancer rates in Basra
Dawai Naji (45 years old) from Basra, southern Iraq, lives in a whirlwind of anxiety about his mother, who is suffering from leukemia and has been hospitalized for weeks at Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital. He fears she might join his younger sister and nephew, who both died of cancer in 2014. He believes that emissions from oil fields are the cause: “A gas flare from an oil extraction facility is only 1000 meters away from our home in the paper factory area in the Dhi Qar region north of Basra, and because of it, the residents are vulnerable to various types…
Spread the “drugs” in the Kurdistan Region… the danger of
(A.S.), a 19-year-old young man from Duhok, did not complete his middle school education. At a young age, he was drawn into the world of drugs, influenced by friends he encountered during a time when his parents were unaware of his changing path, despite their persistent but unsuccessful efforts to steer him back toward his studies. Reflecting on this chapter of his life, he gestures toward his arms, adorned with tattoos, and continues: "My street friends led me into the trap of drugs. They exploited my curiosity and recklessness, encouraging me to try them. I experimented with various substances—crystal, hashish,…
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Shafqat Al-Amel: Basra’s biggest squatter crisis
Largest informal settlement: Shafqat Al-Amel and 100,000 land encroachments in Basra
Al-Muthanna: Anti-corruption protests or factional power struggle?
Progress in Nineveh and Anbar highlights stark contrasts in southern governorates ravaged by corruption.
In oil-rich Basra; two worlds, two classes
Corruption, poverty and unemployment grapple Basra, Iraq’s richest city, as thousands suffer to make ends meet.
Iraq’s ‘Development Road’ amid global trade projects
Iraq’s “Development Road” aims to connect Asia and Europe but faces challenges including competition from alternative routes, security risks, and the need for international cooperation.
Basmaya’s sky is polluted… How do thousands of citizens live?
Abu Muhammad (45 years old), who lives in the Basmaya city, southeast of Baghdad, complains about the gas emissions emitted by the factories of the neighboring area of Abu Thila, which cover the sky of the city and its surroundings. Abu Muhammad, who works as a freelancer, suffers from shortness…
Due to cancerous diseases, a civil movement is about to
Residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the “Samawa Cement” factory, which has failed to implement environmental standards, have been complaining for several years about the spread of many diseases as a result of dust and gas emissions, which poses a permanent threat to their lives, especially after the expansion of its…
Four years after the Tishreen massacres.. The killer is free
Four years after the October 2019 demonstrations, which began to end the corruption system that brought a quarter of the country’s population to the brink of poverty, those involved in the killings escaped punishment, the database of victims disappeared, and the wounded continued to suffer in silence. “He sat in…
Displaced people from Salah al-Din are banned from returning
After ten years, Maytham (50 years old), a government employee, still lives far from his home in the Yathrib area in the Balad district (85 km north of Baghdad) after being displaced following the ISIS takeover of the area in June 2014. The ISIS left nine years ago, but the…
