Reports 2020-08-21 COVID-19 induces unemployment rate up to %35 in Iraq 18-year-old dies of burn wounds Kirkuk Police detains "abusive" husband On 15 August, 18-year-old Sarab Muhammad died in a hospital from severe burn injuries. On the day she dies, Sarab calls her mother complaining about the... Life in Coronavirus times Kaka’i family can’t afford more than modest breakfast Payman’s family starts their day with a meagre meal of a bowl of yoghurt and some stale bread. Her four daughters hungrily eye the front door with... No airport in Kirkuk in the foreseeable future “It does not seem that we will see planes flying over this city. Where is that airport?” 38-year-old Saywan Mhedin told KirkukNow in despair about the... Remains of Kocho massacre victims still in Baghdad one year after exhumation The remains of villagers from Kocho massacred by ISIS in 2014, are still in Baghdad after more than a year has passed since they were sent for forensic... Two eyewitness accounts on what happened in Kocho in August 2014 On the commemoration day of the massacre of the Ezidis at the Kocho village in Shingal district (west of Mosul City), two witnesses convey part of the... Goodbye tent; hello ruins! After six years living in tents, Ayad Habib was granted permission by security forces to go back to his village located at the footsteps of Hamrin... Villagers in Garmiyan quit farming and work for oil companies Newly-discovered oil wells in the Garmiyan region have transformed the economic fabric of the region, and made many villagers dependent on the salaries from... Fate of missing members of the Shabak community still unknown Six years have passed and Ammar Fazil is still searching for his two missing brothers, not knowing whether they are dead or alive. Ammar's two brothers,... Her name means “stranger” for a tragic reason Ghariba was born two months after the ISIS attack on Shingal. She was recently in Baghdad with her mother, seeking all the help they can get to find out the... Since the start of the year: 36 registered suicides in Kirkuk Since the start of the year, 36 suicide cases have been registered in Kirkuk Province. The reasons behind them have been attributed to the difficult living... No income, no audience as COVID-19 looms over life of Kaka’i calligrapher Instead of warm handshakes and flower bouquets, Adnan gets a few impersonal “likes” on social media for his calligraphy art. The Coronavirus upsets the... Extortion rampant at checkpoints between KRI and Baghdad The Iraqi government fails to tackle the rampant extortion and bribe taking at the checkpoints between Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and Baghdad, which is... ‹ 1 2 ... 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 ... 49 50 ›
