Reports 2020-08-18 Remains of Kocho massacre victims still in Baghdad one year after exhumation 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... “Hawijas Beloved” dies at the age of 100 “Hawija’s Beloved,” the woman who stood by the people of Hawija in good and bad times for three decades, died at the age of 100 on 5 August. Her death... The Kakai’s marginalized and excluded in decision making in Iraq From village administrations to the highest political, military and administrative positions, the Kaka’is don’t have representatives they can petition... Yazidis demand ISIS atrocities against their community to be recognized as genocide The Yazidis and most Iraqi government officials consider what ISIS did to the community as genocide. But, internationally, the massacre and enslavement of... Decision by entire village community in Diyala province: Boys to get education and girls to become housewives For the 18-year-old Instisar Hussein to get to school on a daily basis, she would’ve had to travel a distance of 15 km by bicycle and bus on partially... ‹ 1 2 ... 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 ... 54 55 ›