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Protesters in Iraq are rejecting the imprints of war and sectarianism that have destroyed the country — and attempting to build an egalitarian homeland that will put ordinary Iraqis first.
In Iraq, “we need a homeland” is the most popular and persistent demand by protesters. It is not only (...)
Despite extreme public antagonism between the two countries, the US and Iran have de facto collaborated in and over Iraq for decades. Iraqis are now protesting against both.
Choreographed sword fights, such as those traditionally performed in Gulf Arab countries, may look like clashes between (...)
The confrontation and bargaining between the street and the oligarchy will continue, and its outcome will depend on which of the two proves more resilient and adaptive
This year will be remembered for the largest and most enduring anti-government protests in Iraq’s modern history.
What started (...)
After the death of hundreds of people since the eruption of Iraq’s revolution in October, there is no return to the old system.
Tuktuk vehicle with the slogan “leave” in Arabic, Kurdish and English
To reach Tahrir square, the main protest area in Baghdad, we get off at the end of Sa’adoun (...)
While Iraq is experiencing its fourth week of mass protests, it is essential to understand not only their direct causes but also the economic and political dynamics they reveal. العربية
People protest against unemployment and grievances in public administration in Iraq. Picture by Ameer Al (...)
In Iraq’s May national elections, of the 329 parliamentary deputies chosen, Sairoon (meaning ‘Forward’ or ‘the Alliance for Reforms’) scored the biggest win – 55 deputies and 1.3 million votes. Sairoon includes the followers of the powerful Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Communist Party (...)
Recent elections in Iraq show that the country’s voters are tired of a political system that produces only corruption and inequality.
Last month, in the first Iraqi elections since ISIS’s defeat in Mosul, Sairoun, or “March for Reforms” — an electoral alliance led by Shi’a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, (...)
This interview with Comrade Salam Ali, member of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party covers the outcome of the parliamentary elections in Iraq on 12 May 2018, and the political significance of the success achieved by the ‘Sairoun’ alliance which includes the Iraqi Communist Party, the Istiqama Party which is backed by the Sadrists, and other groups. The alliance contested the elections on an anti-sectarian and anti-corruption platform calling for a democratic civil state based (...)
Iraqi trade unions reiterated their opposition to the draft social security law approved by the Iraqi Council of Ministers earlier this year, in “The Future of Social Security in Iraq” conference. According to the trade unions, the draft law is incompatible with the Iraqi constitution and fails (...)
Details are emerging about U.S.-led coalition airstrikes that are believed to have killed over 200 people in a single day in Iraq. The U.S.-led coalition has admitted launching airstrikes on March 17 targeting a crowded neighborhood in Mosul. They are among the deadliest U.S. airstrikes in the (...)
*** Fighting ISIS is a coalition stretching from U.S. soldiers to Kurdish militias
*** Iraq government is dominated by Shia sectarians
*** No alternatives to unfair Iraqi government are on the horizon
*** ISIS will fall, but another version will arise if injustices remain
The offensive to (...)
Reporter taken by gunmen disguised as security officers, say authorities, with prime minister and Reporters Without Borders calling for release.
Gunmen have kidnapped an Iraqi journalist after posing as members of the security forces and bursting into her home in Baghdad, according to (...)
The battle for Mosul is the final episode of the recapture of Iraq. It is the last act of a divided political and military landscape on the verge of new struggles. The absence of any agreements between Erbil and Baghdad concerning the post-Islamic State territorial settlement, and the increased (...)
US and coalition military forces continue to attack Isis territories in Iraq, while Iraqi ground troops prepare to retake the city of Mosul from the grip of the terrorist group. As Isis loses ground in Iraq, it escalates its violent campaign against civilians.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber (...)
Long-awaited report says UK chose to join invasion before peaceful options for disarming Saddam had been exhausted.
Sir John Chilcot has delivered a devastating critique of Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, with his long-awaited report concluding that Britain chose to join the (...)
Introduction
The political and social developments in Iraq since the fall of Mosul to Islamic State/the conquest of Mosul by Islamic State
On June 7th, 2016, Noria, in association with Amnesty International France, organized a conference on Iraq focusing on the theme of “the political and (...)
The political crisis that has been simmering in Iraq, almost completely unnoticed by the U.S. corporate media, boiled over last weekend when anti-government protesters mobilized by supporters of Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr poured into the so-called “Green Zone” in the capital of Baghdad and (...)
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On the 31st of October 2015 I took part in a huge peace conference in the city of Ypres in Belgium on the occasion of centenary of the first World War 1 (1914-1918). I addressed the participants on the danger of ISIS in particular, but the Islamist ideology in general. (...)
Since the end of July, and despite continued terrorist attacks by the so called Islamic State (IS) against Iraqi civilians, massive popular demonstrations have taken place in the capital Baghdad and several cities in the south of the country mainly to denounce corruption in the country and the (...)
Patrick Cockburn reports from Makhmour, the Iraqi town where the tide may finally be turning in the war against the self-styled Islamic State.
Iraqi forces have recaptured the refinery town of Baiji and broken the siege of the giant oil refinery nearby, say officials in Baghdad – in the most (...)
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