Kurdistan

Iraq: Displaced Yazidis Face Giant Camp Fire

Saman Dawood

The fire in the Sharya refugee camp highlights the plight of thousands of displaced Yazidis unable to return to Sinjar, due to the presence of armed groups and political disputes between Baghdad and Erbil.

Investigations

“They Stole our Properties, O Supreme Pontiff”

Nawzat Shamdeen

As Pope Francis travels through Iraq, Mosul’s Christians hope his visit will draw attention to their precarious situation, which includes the dossier of some 6,000 stolen properties.

Culture

Iranian film Disturbs Relations Between Erbil and Tehran

Salah Hasan Baban

Kurdish leaders and their supporters are up in arms over a short Iranian movie showing a “weak” Massoud Barzani, while glorifying Qassem Soleimani.

Investigations

Iraqi Kurdistan: Work and Love in the Wake of “Covid-19”

Radio Rozana

There are about 300,000 Syrian refugees living in Kurdistan, representing 97 percent of the total Syrian refugees in Iraq. They are living in an ever-escalating crisis with the spread of Corona …

Investigations

Suicide in Iraq … the Cover-Up for Femecide and a Escape from Poverty and Extortion

Ahmad Al Rabihi and Hassan Al Nassiri

The Iraqi police received a report recently of a bride’s suicide one day after her marriage, found hanging from a rope bound from the ceiling of her room … This investigation reveals the reasons for the escalation of suicides in Iraq, as well as how many murders of women end up recorded as suicides.

Investigations

Iraq: 25 years of Baath Party Horror in Kurdistan

Jamal Ameadi

After the Iraqi army withdrew from northern Iraq in 1991, over 18 tons of archives documenting Saddam Hussein’s hideous crimes against the Kurds stayed behind. We publish the incredible story of how the files were uncovered, saved and stored.

Investigations

Iraq: He Burnt her and Told Her Family: “Here is Your Daughter, Take Her”…

Mizer Kamal

Stories and tales revealing the horrible facts experienced by many women in a society torn by war, sectarian conflicts, poverty and unemployment.

Kurdistan

Iraq: Displaced Yazidis Face Giant Camp Fire

“They Stole our Properties, O Supreme Pontiff”

Iranian film Disturbs Relations Between Erbil and Tehran

Iraqi Kurdistan: Work and Love in the Wake of “Covid-19”

Suicide in Iraq … the Cover-Up for Femecide and a Escape from Poverty and Extortion

Iraq: 25 years of Baath Party Horror in Kurdistan

Iraq: He Burnt her and Told Her Family: “Here is Your Daughter, Take Her”…

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