h Iraq has included desertification in section 15 of its 2015-2030 strategic plan, seven years later there has been no indication that consecutive Iraqi governments have seriously considered implementing projects to combat it.

  Nozat Shamdine – Translated by Walaa Rayya: On the morning of July 24, 2014, the members of the Islamic State (Daesh) set up a perimeter around what is known as “Tal al-Tawbah”, on which the Prophet Yunus Mosque is built, on the left side of the city of Mosul,…

Myasar Al-Adani and NIRIJ team – Translated by Walaa Rayya: “My mom used to wake me up every morning by playing with my hair to go to school. I always had this dream and then I woke up to Abu Omar’s screaming to find myself at the Caliphate Cubs camp…

Fatimah Neamah Oleiwi Without any obvious plan from the government to deal with digital literacy: The majority of Iraqi women lag behind the world in catching up with technological developments and thousands of women do not have enough skills to use digital tools due to digital illiteracy… “I was totally…

It is a little known chapter of the Syrian war: the thousands of Syrians who were treated in Israeli hospitals. Some never returned. Omran is one of them.

Ahmed Hasan – Translated by Walaa Rayya Early in the morning of May 9, in front of his house in Al-Haddad neighborhood near the two sacred shrines in the fortified city of Karbala, before Ehab Al-Wazni parked his car, two people were waiting for him on a bicycle parked beside…

  Ahmed Hasan, Translated by Walaa Rayya On February 22, 2020, at around 8 p.m., the young protester “Muhammad Ali” (a pseudonym) was waiting alone near Kahramana square in central Baghdad, for a taxi to take him to New Baghdad in the south-east of the capital, where he will continue…

Rawezh kamaran: Although women play a key role in the Kurdistan Parliament, they still need gender quotas to go to parliament in sufficient numbers, especially in regions where few women have jobs outside the home. A gender quota in the Kurdistan parliament mandates that 30% of spots on party electoral…

Baghdad Investigative Team: On 10 January 2020, in Basra, Iraq, unidentified gunmen on a motorbike shot at journalist Ahmed Abdul Samad, a correspondent of the Dijlah satellite TV channel, killing him immediately with a fatal shot to the head. His colleague, photojournalist Safaa Ghali, was transferred to Basra General Hospital…