updated Mon. September 16, 2024
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The National
April 29, 2018
Each week, a team of 25 Albasheer researchers trawl through 72 Iraqi television channels and innumerable YouTube videos searching for false promises, contradictory comments and risible interviews to produce satirical clips exposing the true face of Iraq's political candidates. “On every programmeÃâà...
Haaretz
April 29, 2018
But if in the past, harassment of women candidates was rare, this time it's clear that Iraqi women are perceived as a political threat that makes them a target for harassment. This is a major headliner in the Iraqi media and is stirring public debate. Some Iraqi pundits have said they consider the harassment aÃâà...
Hyperallergic
April 19, 2018
Last July's staged performance was led thematically and sonically by the late Iraqi radio broadcaster Bahjat Abdulwahed, who occupies a mystical position as a kind of spiritual godfather of Iraq, representing the country's progressive era during the 1960s. Abdulwahed was the original impetus behind theÃâà...
Buffalo News
April 18, 2018
The federal government's eight-year-long pursuit of Steve S. Jabar ended Wednesday with a judge who refused to send the Iraq native to prison and suggested the prosecution against him was punishment enough. The long-awaited sentence, delivered in a federal courtroom downtown, means the formerÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 17, 2018
Russian state media reports citing Iraqi television said three women from Azerbaijan were sentenced to death at the same hearing, as was a woman from Kyrgyzstan. Details about those women could not be immediately confirmed. AFP reported that five women from Azerbaijan were sentenced to death atÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
April 2, 2018
BAGHDAD, April 2 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Journalists Syndicate (IJS) organized a gathering late Sunday in honor of a visiting Kuwaiti media delegation in Basra. The event was attended by Kuwait's Consul General in Basra Youssef Al-Sabbagh, IJS President Moayad Al-Lami and Iraqi journalists. During the eventÃâà...
Asia Times
March 20, 2018
I recalled sitting in my family's living room with my aunt when I was a teenager, watching Iraqi television and seeing Donald Rumsfeld visiting Baghdad as an emissary from Ronald Reagan and shaking hands with Saddam. That memory made Mr. Rumsfeld's words in 2002 about freedom and democracyÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 20, 2018
It was not immediately clear whether the strike hit any of the targets, but Hussein wasted little time going on Iraqi television to show the world he was alive and well, and as bellicose as ever. But it could not be determined whether the broadcast was live or recorded before the attack. "The criminal junior BushÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 12, 2018
“There is an agreement between the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Region,” Hadithi told Iraqi Media News Agency. He added that the resumption of international flights at the Erbil and Sulaimani airports was “close,” stating that the meetings between Erbil and Baghdad on lifting the flight embargo have beenÃâà...
Rudaw
March 11, 2018
Saad Maan, spokesperson for Iraq's Interior Ministry, said on Saturday evening that they have “arrested a band which is responsible for killing a Christian family” in Baghdad, according to state-run Iraqi Media Network. Dr. Hisham Shafiq al-Maskuni, 61, his wife Shaza Malik, and his mother Khairiya Dawood were stabbed toÃâà...
Rudaw
March 9, 2018
The attack was carried out by an unknown group of armed people, Iraqi media reported. The attackers also stole some money and expensive items from the ... happened on Friday citing the Christian leader Rayan al-Kldani. This has now been changed to Thursday following credible reports of the incident by Iraqi media.
New Republic
March 2, 2018
But Mahmoud al-Sawadi, an Iraqi magazine journalist, stays and listens closely, because what Hadi's telling him is genuinely weird, even for Baghdad: how after the explosion he'd picked up someone's nose off the street and sewed it onto the face of a corpse he'd been building in his shed. Then howÃâà...
Iraqi News
February 22, 2018
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Media News Agency quoted Hisham al-Hashimi, an expert on terrorist groups affairs, as saying that Jizrawi was killed in a joint operation by the Iraqi intelligence and the U.S.-led Coalition as they launched an airstrike in al-Hijin region, east of Syria, on January 20. “The airstrike isÃâà...
Iraqi News
February 20, 2018
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Two Iraqi civilians were killed on Tuesday when a landmine exploded in an area in the western side of Mosul, a security source was quoted saying. Iraqi Media News Agency quoted a security source in Nineveh province saying that a civilian and his son died when a landmineÃâà...
PRESSTV
December 31, 1999
Abdel Aziz Hassan, the rapporteur of the Iraqi parliament's security and defense committee, was quoted by Iraqi media as saying on Monday that Baghdad is in possession of information about the presence of a number of Daesh militant leaders at a border area between Iraq and Syria. Hassan saidÃâà...
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
Other similar incidents continue to be covered by Iraqi media. Anbar province makes up about one-third of Iraq's total land area, and its inhospitable and extensive rural terrain has proved exceedingly difficult to control, militarily, especially given the substantial influence of local tribes. It shares borders with Jordan, SaudiÃâà...
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
December 31, 1999
She explained that she first sought sanctuary with the United Nations in Jordan before travelling to the UK in 2009 and making Norwich her new home. Afrah Alwassiti on the front cover of an Iraqi magazine in 1979. Picture: Courtesy of Afrah Alwassiti. “Lost the time, lost the money, lost everything becauseÃâà...
