2026-11-04 Kirkuk Protests Deliver Strong Message to Baghdad over Electricity Crisis, Securing Temporary Relief Shingal (Sinjar) Resistance Units, Women’s Units Officially Integrated into Iraqi Security Forces The Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) and the Women’s Units in Shingal have announced that 4,150 of their personnel stationed in the war-torn Shingal district... Iraqi Army Division Deployed to Kirkuk as Calls Grow for Joint Brigades of Local Residents Acting on the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Iraq’s Ministry of Defence has deployed the 17th Division of the Iraqi Army to Hawija... Kirkuk Governorship Dispute: What Does Law Say About Position’s Future? The lack of an explicit legal provision addressing vacancies in the governor’s office has triggered a dispute between the governor of Kirkuk Mohammed Saman... Equal Work, Unequal Benefits: Widening Divide Between Public and Private Sector Employees After six years of exhausting shifts, sleepless nights, and long hours on duty, Shokh Abdullah decided she could no longer continue working at a private... 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 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” 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 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 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 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 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 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... ‹ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 212 213 ›
