Investigative Reports
The Demographic Trap Renewed: Identity Politics and the Failure of
Fakherddin Salih, a Kurd who returned to Kirkuk after 2003, is one of hundreds of Kurdish families threatened with eviction from their homes. For nearly a year, Salih and others guarded their homes, fearing forced displacement by the Iraqi army, pressured by "influential Arabs" seeking to reclaim residential and agricultural lands that the Ba'ath regime had granted them after seizing them from their original Kurdish and Turkmen owners. This is a deep-rooted and recurrent conflict over property, fueled by partisan interests and constantly shifting administrative and security power dynamics in the oil-rich province, which is home to a mix of…
Peace Talks Begin, But the Doors Remain Shut: Displaced Kurds
On July 3, 2024, Dawood Youkhanna (72 years old), along with his family and other residents of the village of Miska in the Amedi district (70 km northeast of Duhok), fled their homes and abandoned their farms—their main source of income—after their village turned into a battlefield between PKK fighters and Turkish forces deployed in the surrounding area. The fighting caused fires that destroyed farmland and damaged many homes. “It’s been almost a year since we left. We’ve endured harsh conditions and still live with the hope of returning,” Dawood says in a low voice, expressing his hope that the…
Redrawing Nineveh: Are Minority Needs Being Servedor Manipulated?”
As soon as Nineveh was fully liberated from ISIS in the summer of 2017, political movements started to emerge, particularly around the time of each election, regarding its administrative future. Representatives of minorities—including Turkmen, Christians, Shabaks, and Yazidis—repeatedly announced their desire to transform their areas (Tel Afar, Sinjar, and the Nineveh Plain) into separate provinces. These aspirations turned into formal efforts by political parties and forces, especially after the Iraqi Parliament voted on April 14, 2025, to approve the creation of Halabja Province—making it the fourth province in the Kurdistan Region and the 19th in Iraq. Minority Areas Nineveh spans…
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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,…