Security Forces, IDPs Cast Votes Early in Iraq’s Parliamentary Elections
al-monitor Early voting has opened in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. Early voting is underway for Iraq’s parliamentary elections, with soldiers, prisoners,...
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The Iraq Report: Baghdad Hosts Regional Summit to Paper Over Domestic Woes
THE NEW ARAB In an attempt to promote Iraq as the neutral ground from which regional rivals can hash out...
October Protestors Displaced to Erbil: Some People Sold Us to the Parties in the Power
Since October 1, 2019, nearly two years ago, young Iraqis have taken to the streets and asked the government to...
Iraq: GCHR’s 17th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq
GCHR Introduction This is the seventeenth report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) which covers the reality of...
Fear and Anger Follow a Deadly Fire at an Iraqi Teaching Hospital
Al-Fanar Media The outbreak of a horrific fire at a teaching hospital in southern Iraq has once again highlighted the...
Al-Wazani’s Killing Sparks a New Wave of Protests to Demand Justice for the Victims of the October Uprising
Iraqi activist Ihab Al-Wazni on Sunday, 9th of May, became a new victim in a wave of targeted killings in...
Impunity for Killings Will Cast a Pall Over Iraq’s Elections
HRW When protests erupted in Baghdad and other parts of central and southern Iraq in October 2019, tens of thousands...
Why Turkey Should Stay Out of Sinjar
European Council on Foreign Relations (ecfr.eu) There is growing fear in Iraq of a potential Turkish military incursion to drive...
Iraq Covid Hospital Fire: 82 Dead After ‘Oxygen Tank Explodes’
BBC At least 82 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in the capital...
Baghdad’s Mustansiriya Madrassa Ready for World Heritage List
Al-Monitor Iraq’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities announced on Feb. 5 the launch of the rehabilitation project for Mustansiriya Madrassa, a historic school building...
A Letter to His Holiness: Intervention to Advocate for Targeted Activists and Protestors as well as the Forcibly Disappeared in Iraq
We, the undersigned, are addressing Your Holiness to request that you support Iraqi activists, protestors, and the forcibly disappeared during...
Anniversary of the ICSSI Baghdad Conference of 2019
ICSSI Strategic Review Process: Listening to the Voices of our Partners. Today, two years ago, the 28th of January 2019,...