On Sunday the 8th of July, the southern oil-rich province of Basra witnessed mass demonstrations, with protestors demanding jobs, electricity, water and other essential services. A protest in West Qurna district in Basra resulted in the killing of at least one demonstrator and the injuring of eight,...

The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has cancelled the results of 1021 electoral stations in the provinces of Erbil, Anbar, Sulaimaniyah, Baghdad, Duhok, Diyala, Salahuddin, Nineveh and Kirkuk as well as a number of polling stations outside of Iraq including, Jordan, Germany, the U...

After failing to reach the 1994 FIFA World Cup Finals, the Iraqi national football team were summoned to a meeting with the football-mad Uday Saddam Hussein, the son of the former Iraqi dictator and self-appointed head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee. Eyewitness accounts provided by Iraqi defectors d...

On Tuesday, 4th December, Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi was unable to pass any of his candidates for the eight remaining ministerial posts following a failed vote in the Iraqi Parliament. In late October, the Iraqi Parliament approved 14 ministers to Mahdi’s cabinet. The remaining eight p...