Iraq’s uprising is unmasking all the sectarian leaders attempting to ride the revolutionary wave. By Zeidon Alkinani In order to understand the recent and sudden alliance that was established by Iran and the Iraqi cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr,….

BY Nadia Mahmood The protests in Iraq are not just around a particular demand, but against the whole governmental system. How can an alternative government be won, and what sort of government? We talk about councils – in place of….

By Zahra Ali The political crisis into which US-Iran tensions have plunged Iraq is delaying the changes that the protesters have been fighting – and dying – for In the tents of Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, young protesters are eager to….

The protest movement convulsing Iraq is a heroic revolt powered by unemployed, precarious, and informal workers. Their aim is to overturn the entire political system, which has produced nothing but violence and poverty for the vast majority of Iraqis. BY….

Throughout the year of 2019, people took to the streets all around the world – including in West Asia and North Africa. We asked activists from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, and Algeria how they perceive the protests in their neighboring….

A small group of demonstrators have stationed themselves for months at the main battle zone on Rasheed Street. by Arwa Ibrahim Baghdad, Iraq – For the past two months, Noor al-Araji’s days have revolved around battling the sting of tear gas….

AN INTERVIEW WITHSAMI ADNAN INTERVIEW BYSCHLUWA SAMA Mass protests are nothing new for Iraq. But what’s different about the demonstrations currently rocking the country is that protesters are calling for the overthrow of the entire post-US-invasion political system. Since October….

After the death of hundreds of people since the eruption of Iraq’s revolution in October, there is no return to the old system.   Ansar Jasim Schluwa Sama 21 November 2019   To reach Tahrir square, the main protest area….

Protestors are clear: they do not want reforms, they want a revolution. By Zeidon Alkinani and Nur Turkmani In Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square, a group of protestors gather around a beating drum and chant, “From Iraq to Beirut, one revolution….

By Mohammed Tawfeeq At least 319 people have been killed in Iraq since the start of anti-government protests in October, according to the Iraqi Parliamentary Human Rights Committee. Four protesters were killed in Baghdad on Saturday after Iraqi Security Forces pushed back hundreds of….

BAGHDAD — From Baghdad to the Shiite Muslim shrine city of Karbala and farther south, Iraqis are pushing for a revolution. They fill central squares to sing and dance from daybreak, and face down riot police when night falls. By Louisa….

By Miriam Berger and Mustafa Salim As U.S. troops occupied the streets of Baghdad in 2003, Iraq’s then-Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf kept insisting that the Americans were still far away. By then, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s spin doctor had already earned….