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Equal Work, Unequal Benefits: Widening Divide Between Public and Private Sector Employees — 2026-10-17
Equal Work, Unequal Benefits: Widening Divide Between Public and Private Sector Employees

Shingal (Sinjar) Crisis: Baghdad’s One-Month Deadline Raises Concerns in Erbil

Shingal (Sinjar) Crisis: Baghdad’s One-Month Deadline Raises Concerns in Erbil

Iraq’s federal government has secured Turkey’s commitment to withdraw its forces and is working to integrate fighters from the Shingal Resistance Units...

Currency Exchange Rate Changes: Protecting Government Revenues at Expense of Citizens

Currency Exchange Rate Changes: Protecting Government Revenues at Expense of Citizens

Abu Abdullah, a retired resident of Mosul who receives his pension in Iraqi dinars IQD, considers himself among the biggest losers from the recent exchange...

Anti-ISIS Altun Kupri Operation: “Indiscriminate Fire”

Anti-ISIS Altun Kupri Operation: “Indiscriminate Fire”

Murad Zana, 14, was killed during clashes on the evening of Sunday, September 27, between Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service forces and two ISIS militants in...

Kirkuk Land Dispute Sparks Tensions as MPs Reject Allocation Plans, Threaten Protests

Kirkuk Land Dispute Sparks Tensions as MPs Reject Allocation Plans, Threaten Protests

Kurdish and Turkmen members of the Iraqi Parliament from Kirkuk have expressed opposition to plans to allocate land to government employees, raising...

Four Parliamentary Terms, Leading Role: Political Career of Kirkuk-Born Lawen Redar in Sweden

Four Parliamentary Terms, Leading Role: Political Career of Kirkuk-Born Lawen Redar in Sweden

Lawen Redar, 37, originally from Kirkuk, has secured enough votes to enter the Swedish Parliament for a fourth term after running on the Social Democratic...

YBŞ Agrees to Disarm, Military Wing Hesitant Over Details

YBŞ Agrees to Disarm, Military Wing Hesitant Over Details

The Shingal (Sinjar) Resistance Units (YBŞ) have agreed to disarm in Shingal district home to the Ezidi (Yazidi) community by integrating their forces into...

Media, Activists Intensify Dispute Between Kirkuk Governor and Provincial Council Chairman

Media, Activists Intensify Dispute Between Kirkuk Governor and Provincial Council Chairman

When Mohammed Samaan Agha took office as Kirkuk governor last April, his relationship with Provincial Council Chairman Mohammed Al-Hafiz was framed around...

Two Long Nights in Custody: Account of Torture in Iraqi Intelligence Prison

Two Long Nights in Custody: Account of Torture in Iraqi Intelligence Prison

A young Kaka’i man arrested last week in Khanaqin district of Diyala province, has described what he says was severe physical and psychological torture...

Khanaqin Protests Suspended as Authorities Review 12 Demands

Khanaqin Protests Suspended as Authorities Review 12 Demands

Tensions in Khanaqin district of Diyala province have eased after days of political statements, threats of demonstrations, and arrests. Planned protests...

Fire at Beji Refinery, Smoke Over Arafa: Fate of 610 Workers Hangs in Balance

Fire at Beji Refinery, Smoke Over Arafa: Fate of 610 Workers Hangs in Balance

Hundreds of workers and engineers from the Kirkuk refinery in the Arafa neighborhood gathered outside the Kirkuk governor’s office on Tuesday, demanding...

Fatat’s Heroines Go Home: Lack of Funding Threatens Kirkuk’s Women Athletes

Fatat’s Heroines Go Home: Lack of Funding Threatens Kirkuk’s Women Athletes

Kirkuk’s Fatat women’s sports club was once a symbol of ambition and achievement. Its athletes trained intensely, competed at national and regional levels,...

Diesel Crisis Hits Kirkuk as Generator Owners Threaten Shutdowns

Diesel Crisis Hits Kirkuk as Generator Owners Threaten Shutdowns

Private generator owners in Kirkuk are threatening to shut down their generators, while government offices across the province have begun reducing...