Iraqis choose refugee camps over ruined homes
Aug 5, 2019 HASSAN SHAM CAMP, Iraq (Reuters) – Despairing of the corpses and debris littering the streets, many Iraqis have left their homes in areas liberated from Islamic State […]
US-Iran brinkmanship: The view from Iraq
OP-ED Daily Sabah > GIORGIO CAFIERO Published 02.08.2019 As a neighbor of Iran, Iraq is the country most threatened by a possible Iran-U.S. war in the Gulf. With close ties […]
Who wants a new war in the Middle East?
Jul 28,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh While tensions in the region are reaching alarming levels, and the increasing pressure on Iran is having wider impacts, there is […]
How Battle of Karbala conditions Iranian mind on Palestinian issue
Saeed Naqvi is a veteran Journalist based in Delhi. He writes extensively on politics and specializes on Pakistan and Middle East. Jul 14, 2019 | Saeed Naqvi How Battle […]
EU’s Mogherini cautions against ‘dangerous adventures’ in the Middle East
Jul 13, 2019 By Ahmed Aboulenein BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The European Union fully backs Iraq’s efforts to de-escalate growing tensions between the United States and Iran because conflict will have […]
Agony of Yazidi women torn between IS kids, or return home
published : 14 Jul 2019 Yazidi teenager Jihan Qassem faced an impossible choice after being freed from years as a hostage of the Islamic State group, abandon her three […]
Who are more tolerant, the Sunnis or the Shias?
Well, let me speak here of my personal experience during my time in Baghdad, Iraq. (For more details see: https://themuslimtimes.info/2017/08/24/glimpses-into-the-life-of-a-global-nomad-part-nine/comment-page-1/ ) I give you a few examples of my inter-action […]
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 […]