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A dust storm that covered seven Iraqi governorates, including Baghdad, caused more than 5,000 cases of suffocation and the death of one person. Social media sites circulated astonishing pictures...
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Given that citizens were being humiliated in most countries year in and year out, the UN decided in 2007 to mark 20 February annually as the World Day of...
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Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, says Mr Blair deserves knighthood, the title of "Sir" bestowed on him by the Queen, the UK's highest honour, for "making Britain a better...
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The devastation caused by man to the environment is no longer a secret; nature is striking back painfully, after decades of warnings by scientists of a catastrophic future that...
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US President Joe Biden is worried, and his worry is shared by Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Not, I might add, because of the "attempted assassination" of Iraq's caretaker Prime...
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How can we understand what is currently happening in Iraq in terms of the violence, in the form of sabotage and fighting with live bullets or booby-trapped drones that...
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What makes nations, whether from countries with ancient democracies, such as Britain and America or a newly established democracy such as Iraq, choose leaders, especially in the last decade,...
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In a tweet written in English, Prime Minister of the Baghdad government, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, addressed the Iraqi people on the occasion of the early elections to be held on...
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On Friday 24 September a conference titled "Peace and Recovery" was held in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The conference, which was organised by an American...
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At a time when the voices of American and British officials, and the official media in the West in general, are loudly denouncing the lack of support for Afghan...
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Was America really surprised by the quick return of the Taliban to Afghanistan? Is there some hidden truth or is it just that everything happened much faster than anticipated,...
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The interviews are harrowing. "It was the same routine, every day hanging me up and beating me. There are things they did to me there that I am too...
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When the Green Party's Caroline Lucas MP asked Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs whether the government was supporting gas-related projects in other countries financially,...
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Almost daily, the security authorities in Iraq announce the arrest of drug smugglers and users, especially in Baghdad, as well as Basra in the south and Diyala on the...
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Palestine, which lives in our hearts and souls, has within eleven days achieved a lot in the relentless struggle for freedom, albeit at a cost which we all know...
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The gap between the Arab people and their governments has never been greater and deeper than what we are currently experiencing regarding Palestine. At a time when some governments...
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Thirty-two dead and over 110 wounded people have been added to the list of bombing victims in Iraq. Two suicide bombers were responsible; strapped with explosives they blew themselves...
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Engineering graduates gathered again on Sunday to protest in front of the headquarters of the Shuaiba Refinery near Basra in southern Iraq because of the government's failure to respond...
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On Thursday 6 August, we were preparing to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. But on Tuesday, we were...
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For the first time since the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, women in the country are celebrating International Women's Day, in a way that is reminiscent of...
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Muhammad Allawi has recently been appointed as Prime Minister of the Iraqi transitional government, since when the auction for government positions has quickened; in this it is no different...
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Journalist Ahmed Abdel Samad and his colleague, photographer Ghali Al-Tamimi, were added to the list of Iraqi women and men martyrs after being assassinated three days ago by what...
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As the American war drums against Iran grow louder, we are beginning to hear their joyous echoes in the hearts of Iraqi parties who view the war as "liberation"...
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How can we tackle the Israeli narrative about Palestine's past and present, when the Palestinian people continue to struggle against Israel's colonial occupation which bases its existence on a...
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Was President Donald Trump aware of how foolish he looked when he sat in front of the cameras and proudly signed a document recognising Jerusalem as the Israeli capital?...
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Writing is the act of documentation and is one means of resisting apartheid and ethnic cleansing targeting any nation, let alone the Palestinian nation.
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During his meeting with the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions and her accompanying delegation on 15 November, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi stated that human rights violations in...
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After the announcement of Mosul's liberation, the spotlight was focused on rebuilding the city that everyone agreed had been 80 per cent ruined on the right side, including bridges,...
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For the third time since the occupation of Iraq in 2003, the National Personal Status Law number 188 of 1959, which is still on the statute book, is at...
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The Iraqis are fearfully waiting for the beating of war drums after the referendum was held in Kurdistan, wondering if this is the post-Daesh phase. They know too well...
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According to Dr Elham Al-Douri, "40 per cent of Iraqi children suffer from mental illnesses." She continues to list harrowing facts about the mental and psychological illnesses in Iraq,...
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One of the changes US President Donald Trump has been working to make since his presidency is a change to the laws regarding humanitarian food aid to the world,...