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At the Casablanca Book Fair in Morocco back in 2009, the Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef was signing the seventh volume of his Complete Poetic Works. A flock of junior high school girls in their blue uniforms were standing nearby. One of them pointed to her friend, telling Youssef: “She, too, is a (...)
The protests in Iraq may have subsided, but it is only a matter of time before people are back in the streets.
Earlier this year, there was much hope among politically active youth in Iraq that the fall would reignite the revolutionary fervour of last year’s October protests and bring large (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
BBC investigation exposes Shia clerics in Baghdad advising men on how to abuse girls
I’m walking through the security cordon that leads into Kadhimiyah, one of Shia Islam’s holiest sites. I’m in a queue, along with dozens of pilgrims who have come from all over the world to pay their respects to (...)
Energy giant Rosneft struck major deals with Iraq’s Kurdish region in 2017. Today, it has yet to cash in on them.
Erbil, Iraq - Two years after Iraq’s new constitution in 2005 officially recognised the autonomy of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Russia established formal relations with its (...)
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 (...)
After years of misrule and repression, the people of Iraqi Kurdistan have had enough. In March 2018, protesters began taking to the streets to demand deep reforms from a government they can no longer tolerate. Led by teachers, university lecturers, doctors and the like, and including large (...)
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 (...)
With a victory of the “yes” at over 92% in favor of the independence and a participation rate reaching 72%, the results of the referendum are clear and confirmed the popular enthusiasm of the vast majority of the Kurdish population seen the weeks before the vote.
Popular scenes of jubilation (...)
A referendum on the independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region of northern Iraq since 1991 and composed of three provinces, will take place on September 25, 2017.
The vote will not be binding, but will trigger the independence process if the yes votes win. The Iraqi central (...)
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 (...)
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The five main Kurdish parties have separately rejected former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s call for Kurds to retreat from areas they have liberated from ISIS in the last two years, saying they defended these lands from the radical group and can keep them until (...)
A group of 200 former peshmergas have held a press conference in Qandil regarding rumours that the Turkish state will carry out an operation on the Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan).
Some 200 former (Dêrin) peshmergas visited the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) base in Qandil (...)
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