BREAKING: Americans Banned From Iraq – Retaliation Measures
Following the shock announcement that citizens of seven Arab nations would not be allowed entry into the United States of America as of Friday 27th January 2017 for a period of 90 days, Iraq has...
View ArticleBaghdad-on-Sea: Iraqi’s Take Over Caspian Coast
A new trend is occurring on Iran’s northern Caspian Sea shores – Iraqis – specifically residents of Baghdad. This uncommon sight to Mazandaran locals and Tehran natives alike has, according to...
View ArticleA Case Study of the Islamic State as the Saddam Regime’s Afterlife: The...
Saddam Hussein created the Fedayeen Saddam in 1994 as a paramilitary Praetorian unit. The Fedayeen were initially charged with protecting the regime from a repeat of the revolts that followed Saddam’s...
View ArticleSaying Good Riddance to Sectarian Quotas in Iraq
Arguments in favour of sectarian quotas in Iraq’s remind one of the old arguments invariably forwarded for partition. They sound reasonable and realistic on the surface. A solution that makes everyone...
View ArticleProtests in Iraq: An Indictment or Vindication of Iraqi Democracy?
Just over 12-years ago the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein forced all his people to once again (it would turn out to be the very last time) vote for him in a characteristically depraved attempt at...
View Article19 women have been executed by ISIS for not having sex, Kurdish official says
Spokesperson of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, Mimousini, said on Monday, that ISIS had executed 19 women in Mosul, attributing the cause to refusing the practice of the so-called sexual...
View ArticleThree Cheers for Sistani
When Iraq’s most pre-eminent Shia cleric comments on political affairs it’s worth your while to listen. But don’t expect some rabble-rousing sectarian demagoguery from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani....
View ArticleAnbar: A Tale of Two Offensives
When the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) lost control of Anbar’s provincial capital Ramadi just under a year after their infamous loss of Mosul to the marauding Islamic State (Daesh) group late last May it...
View ArticleThe Road To Iraq’s Future Runs Through Anbar
The Population Mobilization Units (PMU’s) have come a long way since their inception in the wake of the Islamic State (Daesh) terror gangs blitz across Northern Iraq in June 2014. A predominantly Shia...
View ArticleThe Other Potential Conflict Which Lurks Beneath Iraq’s War Against ISIS
Cheapened by overuse and over-simplification few analogies between present-day events and Nazi Germany are very apt. Nevertheless the nature of the current alliance of disparate groups in Iraq against...
View ArticleIn Favour of a Federalized Iraq
The last few weeks have unfortunately seen some very discouraging setbacks in Iraq. As the Islamic State (Daesh) terror gang marked a whole year in control of Iraq’s second city Mosul the provincial...
View ArticleHow Music Can Play Its Part In Defeating Terror In Iraq
For years Iraq has experienced destruction and all forms of terror that has taken its toll on Iraqi’s. Recently we have seen music being used as a tool to push back against terror in Iraq. Meet Karim...
View ArticleErbil and Rojava
Many formerly disparate forces ended up at least tacitly cooperating in the wake of the increased threat posed by the Islamic State (ISIS, Daesh) terror gang. The United States and Iranian-backed Shia...
View ArticleMosul in a State of Panic after Iraqi Air Force drops Leaflets
Residents of Mosul woke up to leaflets raining down on them from the sky after the Iraqi Air Force conducted air-drops of thousands of leaflets across the city in order to share its message and ensure...
View ArticleIzzat ad Douri and ISIS
Written by Kyle W. Orton Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, Saddam Hussein’s long-time deputy, was reported dead (again) on April 17. An audio message on May 15 disproved this. Douri was the implementer of the...
View Article10 Reasons Why Iraq Is The Worst Place On Earth
If you’ve been alive for more than a day, you will know that Iraq is a dangerous place, where suicide attacks are a daily occurrence, women are oppressed, and people don’t have a social life. A guy I...
View ArticleDon’t Give Up On Iraq
Iraq has been fighting the Islamic State (Daesh, ISIS) terror gang for well over a year now. Daesh’s blitz across Northern Iraq and its more recent advances in Iraq’s Anbar Province have led many to...
View Article#TerroristTurkey becomes Number 1 worldwide HashTag
News broke overnight that ISIS aka Daesh had attacked the city of Kobane by crossing over the border from Turkey. Naturally the global community on Twitter erupted at the news of Turkey allowing ISIS...
View ArticleIraqi Telecom provider Asiacell is having a surge in subscribers
The leading telecoms provider, Asiacell is currently experience a surge in demand thanks to a significant investment made in 2014 in conjunction with Swedish telecom giant Ericsson. By working with...
View ArticleIraq’s Reckoning with Daesh
In scenes uncannily like Eastern Europe in the early 1940’s or Srebrenica in 1995 the victims of the Camp Speicher massacre of July 2014 were lined up like lambs to the slaughter. Unarmed and...
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