Investigative Reports
The Demographic Change Haunts Minorities in the Nineveh Plain
Since Imad Zuhair (a pseudonym, 47 years old) returned to Qaraqosh, the center of the Hamdaniya district in the Nineveh Plain, after it was liberated from ISIS in late 2016, he has not stopped thinking about leaving the country as soon as he finds a suitable opportunity for himself and his small family, a wife and two daughters (9 and 11 years old). Like thousands of others, he was forced to flee to Erbil on August 7, 2014, after ISIS militants took control of the area and gave the residents two options: either pay the poultry farm (a tax) and…
Marginalization policies and lack of justice… The Yezidis of Sheikhan
After spending nearly four decades in Sheikhan, Hadi Dubbani (57 years old) left the country with his family, leaving the Yezidi town located north of Mosul to settle in Germany, as did dozens of his relatives. He says in a choked voice: "ISIS destroyed everything for us, it turned our lives upside down. I even left the land I never imagined I would leave. Many things pushed us to this decision: security, fear for the future, discrimination, and the absence of justice." Dubbani, who held the position of director of the Yezidi Endowment in Duhok Governorate in the Kurdistan Region…
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.
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Counterfeit Medicine Plagues Iraqi Kurdistan
Muwaffaq Muhammad Bikhal, a young Kurdish woman, knows she may not live to see another spring. The leukemia that has ravaged her body since she was treated with defective chemotherapy drugs at a hospital in Iraqi Kurdistan has reduced her to a ghost of her former self. The 25-year-old gazes…
Counterfeit Medicine Plagues Iraqi Kurdistan
Muwaffaq Muhammad Bikhal, a young Kurdish woman, knows she may not live to see another spring. The leukemia that has ravaged her body since she was treated with defective chemotherapy drugs at a hospital in Iraqi Kurdistan has reduced her to a ghost of her former self. The 25-year-old…
Iraq should investigate “Arbitrary Execution” of nationals by US forces
by:Maiadah Daood Ishaqi, Iraq – Ibrahim Harrat, a former army officer who lost one of his legs, bowed down to pick up the empty shells. These bullets were the ones used by US soldiers six and a half years ago – in this very house, now turned to rubble –…
Iraq should investigate “Arbitrary Execution” of nationals by US forces
by:Maiadah Daood Ishaqi, Iraq – Ibrahim Harrat, a former army officer who lost one of his legs, bowed down to pick up the empty shells. These bullets were the ones used by US soldiers six and a half years ago – in this very house, now turned to rubble –…
Arab journalists meet for fifth investigative journalism conference
Over 300 journalists will meet in Cairo for the fifth annual investigative journalism conference. 22.11.2012 From 23-25 November, Cairo hosts the fifth annual conference for Arab Investigative journalists Over 300 Arab journalists and a number of international media experts are set to meet in Cairo to exchange expertise, skills and…
Arab journalists meet for fifth investigative journalism conference
Over 300 journalists will meet in Cairo for the fifth annual investigative journalism conference. 22.11.2012 From 23-25 November, Cairo hosts the fifth annual conference for Arab Investigative journalists Over 300 Arab journalists and a number of international media experts are set to meet in Cairo to exchange expertise, skills and…
Generations of Iraqi females turn suicide under Al-Qadea influence
A report by: Mayada Dawod (Milad Al-Juburi ) Amal, the young Iraqi girl, was transferred from the illusion of “holy matrimony” to a “suicide bomber in the making” after she was promised eternal life by her recruiters. Amal, who never made it past fifth grade due to her family’s poverty,…
Generations of Iraqi females turn suicide under Al-Qadea influence
A report by: Mayada Dawod (Milad Al-Juburi ) Amal, the young Iraqi girl, was transferred from the illusion of “holy matrimony” to a “suicide bomber in the making” after she was promised eternal life by her recruiters. Amal, who never made it past fifth grade due to her family’s poverty,…