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A Rift Among Allegiances

For over a month, Iraq has had strict curfews preventing its people from leaving home due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak. The political...

Hannah Alohaid

Apr 29, 20202 min read

Mustafa Salim: Growing up in Iraq

Mustafa Salim is a foreign reporter living in Iraq. In a recent article for the Washington Post, Salim talked about what his childhood...

Hannah Alohaid

Apr 28, 20201 min read

Mustafa Al-Kadhimi: Iraqi Prime Minister Candidate

In 2019, after a mere five months in office, Adil Abdul-Mahdi resigned as the Prime Minister of Iraq. For months now, Iraq has been left...

Hannah Alohaid

Apr 28, 20201 min read

Iraq Economy Takes a Plunge in COVID Aftermath

Like many other countries, the Iraq economy has been hit heavily by the effects of Coronavirus. As one of the worlds leading oil...

Hannah Alohaid

Apr 27, 20201 min read

Iraq: Urgent Need for Domestic Violence Law

International Women’s day in Baghdad this year was a day of mourning for women protests in Iraq. The overwhelming amount of protests is...

Hannah Alohaid

Apr 22, 20201 min read

COVID Clashes with Traditional Iraqi Burial

Religious customs in Middle Eastern countries are changing erratically due to coronavirus outbreak. According to Adham Rashad Ismail, the...

Hannah Alohaid

Apr 6, 20201 min read

Military: US Pulling Out of Three Key Iraq Sites

3 of 8 US bases in Iraq will be pulling out of the area of the Syria and Iran borders. After the US drone strike on the Iran Commander...

Hannah Alohaid

Mar 16, 20201 min read

The Coronavirus is an American and Jewish Plot

According to Iraqi Political Analyst Muhammad Sadeq Al-Hashemi: Coronavirus Is an American, Jewish Plot to Reduce World Population;...

Hannah Alohaid

Mar 2, 20201 min read

Iraq’s World Cup Moment is Here

Even from the whirlwind of collusion in the destination of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Iraq national team is proving that they belong in...

Hannah Alohaid

Feb 26, 20201 min read

Iraq extends ban on Iran arrivals amid coronavirus fears

According to Aljazeera, one of the leading news outlets in Iraq, the country is currently concerned about the potential spreading of the...

Hannah Alohaid

Feb 23, 20201 min read

About Iraq: Behind the Curtain

"Iraq is bounded on the east by Iran, on the north by Turkey, on the west by Syria and Jordan, and on the south by Saudi Arabia and...

Hannah Alohaid

Feb 16, 20201 min read

The Purported Leader of Al-Qaida Arrested on American Soil

Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, a person accused of killing two cops while acting because the leader of an Al Qaida group within the Iraqi...

Hannah Alohaid

Feb 11, 20202 min read

Winter Storm Coats Baghdad in Snow for the Second Time in 100 years

For only the second time in 100 years, there is snow layering the city of Baghdad. In the mountainous regions, there are many accounts of...

Hannah Alohaid

Feb 11, 20201 min read

Iraq Protests Sparks Flood of Political Art

In March, painters, sculptors, and musicians began rallying to Baghdad’s protests. The capital is now overflowing with political art....

Hannah Alohaid

Feb 3, 20201 min read

Global News in the Age of Social Media

"We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's...

Hannah Alohaid

Jan 14, 20202 min read

Qasem Soleimani: US Kills Top Iranian General in Baghdad Airstrike

There was a US drone strike ordered on the Iranian Commander Soleimani who “was widely seen as the second most powerful figure in Iran,...

Hannah Alohaid

Jan 3, 20201 min read