Heatwave hits Iraq — and sparks begin to fly
By AFP – Jun 17,2019 – JORDAN TIMES BAGHDAD/NASIRIYAH, Iraq — Hospital ventilators shut down, football matches with obligatory water breaks and food spoiling in fridges without power: Iraq’s notorious […]
Dispatch : How Europe Is Handing Off Its ISIS Militants to Iraq
France is leading the way in washing its hands of its Islamic State fighters—whether they receive justice or not. By Pesha Magid | June 15, 2019, BAGHDAD—Standing in his prisoner’s […]
Francis wants first papal visit to Iraq
Jun 10, 2019 – swissinfo.ch VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Monday he wants to travel to Iraq next year, which would be the first ever papal trip […]
Saudi Arabia gathers Arab leaders over attacks on oil assets
May 30, 2019 – By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Marwa Rashad JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Arab leaders gather in Saudi Arabia on Thursday for emergency summits that Riyadh […]
Iraqi protesters urge Baghdad to stay out of US-Iran showdown
Sadr campaigned last year on platform of Iraqi nationalism By Reuters – May 26,2019 -JORDAN TIMES BAGHDAD — Thousands of supporters of a populist Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric urged political […]
Iraqi Shiite figures warn US-Iran war could ‘burn’ Iraq
Source: Associated Press By BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD (AP) — Leading Iraqi Shiite figures warned Monday against attempts to pull their country into a war between the U.S. […]
Iraq weighs captives’ rights against fear of new Islamic State
May 23, 2019 By John Davison AL-HOL CAMP, Syria (Reuters) – Iraqi farmer Shaker Salih says he feared Islamic State, but feared its defeat even more. His problem is […]
Where is Saddam Hussain ?
Editor’s Note: PLEASE forgive me, this thought just came to my mind. It is well known that Saddam Hussain was a brutal dictator. While he did not […]
In Iraq, the ghosts provide the glue of unity in a story of survival
For a land that has experienced such suffering – under Saddam, then under the Americans, and then under attacks from the Isis cult – Robert Fisk finds that a profound […]
The amazing story of Amar: Finding family after 30 years
Love that survived Saddam’s savagery: Horribly burned in an Iraqi war crime, this orphan was taken in by an English Baroness, but 28 years later he has made an […]
In Iraq, the ghosts provide the glue of unity in a story of survival
For a land that has experienced such suffering – under Saddam, then under the Americans, and then under attacks from the Isis cult – Robert Fisk finds that a profound […]
Widows of Iraq’s war pick up the threads of fragmented lives
By Reuters – May 13,2019 -JORDAN TIMES Women sew clothes at Waladi textile factory, part of which was destroyed by the war, in Mosul, Iraq, on May 5 (Reuters photo) […]
‘Pity America, because of this crazy Trump!’ Here’s what Iran’s man in Iraq would say to Mike Pompeo
Hadi al-Ameri calls himself an Iraqi first, a Shia second, but there’s no doubting his links with key figures across the border. The US secretary of state would have been wise to […]
On the banks of the Tigris, the lost grave of Scottish shepherd David Bell takes us deep into Iraq’s bloody past
A barren war cemetery in Amara houses the dead from the allies’ most calamitous defeat in the First World War. It was a request from a canny grandmother in Lincolnshire that took […]
Iraq is pushing to build an isolation camp for 30,000 Iraqis who lived under ISIS in Syria
Source: The Washington Post By Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim IRBIL, Iraq — Senior Iraqi officials are pressing to establish a special detention camp to isolate as many as 30,000 Iraqis who lived […]
This is what happened when I met Haider al-Abadi, the former – and possibly future – prime minister of Iraq
He’s the family cat who’s just eaten the the canary, and that canary is Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Isis, or maybe even the city of Mosul Robert Fiskin Baghdad @indyvoices There are […]
Elite US Navy SEAL facing war crimes charges for killings in Iraq
Previous 1 / 2 2 / 2 AFP April 28, 2019 Platoon commander’s behavior horrified his own men, yet Republican lawmakers want him to be set free Barbarian officer’s men […]
Iraq’s oldest Christian town celebrates Easter without Isis
Maundy Thursday mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the predominantly Christian town of Hamdaniya. Photograph: Achilleas Zavallis/The Guardian Hamdaniya has been reclaimed from the extremists who made […]
An interview with an Iraqi scholar has led me to think very differently about Brexit and extremism in Europe
‘In Shiasm,’ the great man, Sayed Hakeem, reminds me, ‘the more knowledge a scholar has, the more humble he must be – otherwise he will become a dictator’ Robert FiskNajaf, southern Iraq @indyvoices The […]
Iraq’s wounded and grief-stricken tell a disturbing tale of a divided country after the ‘defeat’ of Isis
The men of the Shia militias who helped rescue the Iraqi government army as Isis advanced on Baghdad complain bitterly that their government cares little for them Robert FiskKerbala, Southern Iraq @indyvoices […]