Investigative Reports
Poverty and persecution or faith… What drives the Lebanese to
Al-aalem Al-jadeed, Saman Daoud, translated by Walaa Rayya June 2022: On the dawn of Friday, January 21, 2022, ISIS militants surprised an Iraqi army company in the Hawi al-Azeem area in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad, and killed an officer with the rank of lieutenant and ten soldiers by small arms fire they had. This attack was not an exceptional case for the Iraqi security services. The areas between Salah al-Din and Diyala governorates, especially the Hamrin Mountains, have been witnessing for two years now attacks by ISIS members who are holed up in caves there, which they take as…
The story of the real estate theft in Mosul
Armed forces, parties, and powerful people possess more than 20,000 properties
The Alternative Syrian Passport… Non-Recognition and Explicit Corruption
June 2019: Kamal Oskan and Adam Al-Hussein After the formation of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (the transitional government headed by Ahmed Touma on 11/11/2013, a Syrian alternative passport was issued, or what is known as the Coalition passport issued by the Syrian Interim Government. This decision was based on what the Coalition describes as the European Union (“EU”) recognition of it as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. In fact, the preamble to the contract concluded between the Coalition and the Slovenian company states that "the EU considers the National Coalition…
Journalists in a Coffin, Killers on the Loose
In the course of about a decade, Mosul witnessed the assassination of some 82 journalists and media employees, not including the ones that disappeared at the hands of ISIS. “All cases of targeting and assassinating journalists in Nineveh until 2014 were registered against unknown persons, no criminals were ever identified.”
From a border crossing to a center… Iraqi Kurdistan is
Salah Baban – translated by Walaa Rayya: “Naz Ali” (27 years old) never imagined that the man she fell in love with and married, Farshad Anayat, who had come to Sulaymaniyah from Kermanshah, Iran, was a professional drug dealer. The Iranian young man presented himself to her as a researcher…
Sinjar battles: the conflict of the local forces encouraged by
The “political agreement” was disrupted by the harmony between the Iraqi Yazidis loyal to the “Workers” and the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces
Poverty and persecution or faith… What drives the Lebanese to
Al-aalem Al-jadeed, Saman Daoud, translated by Walaa Rayya June 2022: On the dawn of Friday, January 21, 2022, ISIS militants surprised an Iraqi army company in the Hawi al-Azeem area in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad, and killed an officer with the rank of lieutenant and ten soldiers by small…
The story of the real estate theft in Mosul
Armed forces, parties, and powerful people possess more than 20,000 properties
The Alternative Syrian Passport… Non-Recognition and Explicit Corruption
June 2019: Kamal Oskan and Adam Al-Hussein After the formation of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (the transitional government headed by Ahmed Touma on 11/11/2013, a Syrian alternative passport was issued, or what is known as the Coalition passport issued by the Syrian…
Two years on, Syrians injured in Beirut port blast drown
August 2022: ‘How are we going to pay?’ On paper, the Lebanese government, UNHCR and international aid agencies were meant to cover medical costs for those injured in the August 4 explosion 2020 , including foreigners. But the injured tell a different story. Illustration by Rami Khoury Alicia Medina Alicia…
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…
