Democracy in Iraq Depends on Press Freedom
“A group of armed men wearing black uniforms stormed into my house in Baghdad and abducted me,” Iraqi blogger Shojaa Fares al-Khafaji told me a few days after his early-morning ...
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“A group of armed men wearing black uniforms stormed into my house in Baghdad and abducted me,” Iraqi blogger Shojaa Fares al-Khafaji told me a few days after his early-morning ...
As a new wave of demonstrations engulfs the Middle East, one common factor connects the protests from Baghdad to Beirut: a deep and widespread feeling of antipathy toward the Iranian ...
The killings of Iraqi activists who participated in anti-government demonstrations continue to make headlines, most recently on prominent civil society activist Fahem al-Tai, who was part of the demonstrations since their early ...
In Baghdad, crowds of anti-government demonstrators thronged Tahrir Square, the epicentre of their movement. Late Friday, unidentified gunmen attacked a parking complex near Tahrir where demonstrators had been squatting for ...
The political order imposed on Iraq by the US-led international community, in the wake of dictator Saddam Hussein’s ouster in 2003, has failed. The idea was to distribute public sector jobs among ...
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said Friday he would submit his resignation to parliament following a spike in the death toll among protesters who accuse the country’s entire ruling elite ...
The resignation of Iraq’s prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, which should be confirmed by parliament in Baghdad in the next few days, is a necessary and welcome step if Iraqis are ...
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation on Friday after a call from Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric for the government to step down to end weeks of deadly ...
“In response to this call, and in order to facilitate it as quickly as possible, I will present to parliament a demand (to accept) my resignation from the leadership of ...
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani made his remarks after the bloodiest day in weeks of anti-government unrest in which security forces have shot dead hundreds of protesters and clashes have begun to ...
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