DANGER ON HOME FRONT: How the Iran war is increasing domestic violence in Iraq

By Murtada al-Hudoud in Dhi Qar It feels like a nightmare at home, says Um Mohammed, an Iraqi woman who lives in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. Since the US and Israel attacked Iran, sparking a regional conflict, neighboring Iraq has been impacted by things like fuel shortages and rising prices. Locals are worried…

Iraq Has More Coronavirus Infections Than Have Been Counted – it’s just that the patients escape quarantine.

If the official count is correct, then Iraq would have the highest mortality rate in the world. The country is currently registering over 150 cases of patients infected with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and 11 deaths. By Mustafa Habib, in Baghdad. But nobody really believes those numbers. Abd al-Rahman al-Aboudi, a doctor at a hospital…

A Female Iraqi who sold books in al-Mutanabi Street established a Publishing House

Ezekiel’s Babylon’s forgotten tomb, a symbol of Iraq’s ancient Jewish heritage

Al-Menasa - Babylon On the eastern side of the Euphrates River, in a spot where local residents have inherited conflicting stories about their heroes, the shrine of the Prophet of God Ezekiel or "Dhul-Kifl, or Zul-Kifl"  is known as the "prophet of the Jews" is located among the inhabitants of the Babylonian region in Iraq.…