Sinan Salaheddin Mahmoud

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Sinan Salaheddin Mahmoud

The National Iraq Correspondent.

 
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“We have zero trust in the government to bring us justice,” she said. “All I need now from the government is to identify the killer of my son and his tribe will take revenge.”

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“None of our demands are met yet,” activist Haider Al Hilfi told The National while sitting inside a tent in Tahrir Square. “We will rise up again on October 1 in a new revolution.”

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“The US doesn’t want stumbling blocks in Iraq so that it can carry on with its schemes,” he said. “These stumbling blocks are the resistance factions.”

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Despite all these years, "I still wake up sometimes with panic attacks hearing the whistle of the shells and the wail of the wounded soldiers," says Keshish.

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Other Iraqis say a new National Day is simply not a priority. "We have a lot of problems now that the government needs to focus on other than the National Day issue,” Ms Hussam says.

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As Iraq is struggling to contain COVID19 with decimated infrastructure & a shortage of medical staff, lack of funds has derailed the employment of 1000s of sorely needed medical graduates & health workers. My latest for @AJEnglish.

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“We are being slaughtered like sacrifices by the uncontrolled militias,” said cleric Asaad Al Nassiri, a prominent activist in the southern city of Nasiriyah who advocates the calls for arms.

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While Iraqi health authorities are struggling to contain the rocketing number of COVID-19 cases, a new challenge is popped up: Mass gatherings of mourners determined to observe their weeks-long ceremonies. My latest for ALJazeera.

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Domestic violence cases have increased by between 20 and 30 per cent since the beginning of this year in Iraq, compared with the same period last year, according to the Head of the Interior Ministry’s Community Police, Brig Gen Ghalib Al Attiyah.

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“Our business is badly hit by the outbreak. We didn’t expect to close down all this time,” said Mr Hamza, 24, outlet manager for a brand of women's handbags and shoes. He estimated lost revenue at about $80,000 since the closing in mid-March.

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The family has now been reduced to just essentials, and the list of what they can afford is steadily shrinking – one chicken a week, a few eggs and dairy products with bread for breakfast. Dinner is falafel provided by a friend.

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Rundown hospitals, many built between the late 1970s and early 1980s, are overflowing. Most medicines and medical supplies are only available on the black market and medical staff are dying due to a lack of protective measures.

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As the prices went down to less than $20 per barrel in March from as high as $58 per barrel the month before, Iraq has lost nearly 60 percent of its revenues.

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Lack of awareness, social stigma and overly zealous pilgrims have emerged as the main challenge that hinders the modest efforts by the Iraqi government to slow coronavirus spread.

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“A revolution against everything built since 2003 and perhaps before. Be part of it, not against it. We are here!” she concludes.

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“Honestly, I’m afraid of Trumps threats and feel nervous. We had bitter experiment back then and I don’t want the new generation to go through the same,” he continued.

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Protesters are still not convinced with the resignation of the Prime Minister and the new electoral law, saying they are determined to continue until all their demands are met.

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Hours after Al-Sistani’s Friday sermon, Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi submitted his resignation, plunging the country into a political crisis.

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The demonstrations are remarkable not only for their size and the violence it witnessed, but also because they are taking place in Iraq’s Shiite-dominated nine provinces as well as Baghdad.

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But the support from Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani and Muqtada Al-Sadr has drawn a lukewarm response and received with skepticism from some youth who make up the backbone of the leaderless protests and eye for a secular government.

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Lack of jobs, dilapidated public services and rampant corruption drive the protests that have turned violent due to heavy-handed response from security forces, leaving more than 400 protesters killed and nearly 20,000 others wounded.

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The protesters have turned Baghdad’s Tahrir Square and surrounding area into a tent city to live in and an open-air exhibition and cultural centre. Volunteers are offering money, food, clothing and services to keep the sit-in going.

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By the end of 2014, she started her business with a US $500 as a small project with a Facebook page and a modest workshop occupies a room in her family house. Today, the project runs with an annual revenue of about US $100,000.

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Now, Nakhla Company_ Arabic word for palm tree_ is part of Iraq’s burgeoning entrepreneurial culture that has brought hope of changing the mentality of a society sees the public sector as the only guaranteed place for incentives and pensions.

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hopes to be a tourism destination as part of the economic reforms plan launched in early 2016 to diversify its oil-reliant economy. This story for Zawya Arabic is about launching the new tourism visa that aims at easing restrictions on foreigners. Interesting story, I love it.

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The story is about the water woes in the southern province of Basra which was once known as the “Venice of the East” because of its freshwater canals. Along with a lingering electricity crisis in this oil-rich region, water problems contributed to last year violent demonstrations in Basra and other southern provinces, in which protesters attacked and burned government and political party offices, prompting security forces to open fire.

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She was a 22-year-old former beauty queen, fashion model and social media star, whose daring outfits revealed tattoos on her arms and shoulder. Tara Fares won fame and 2.8 million Instagram followers in conservative, Muslim-majority Iraq with outspoken opinions on personal freedom., such as: “I’m not doing anything in the dark like many others; everything I do is in the broad daylight.” It was also the way she died. Her killing, followed the slaying of a female activist in the southern city of Basra and the mysterious deaths of two well-known beauty experts, raised fears of a return to the kind of attacks on prominent figures that plagued the country at the height of its sectarian strife.

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Feeling helpless, war victims in Iraq turn to social media to find help. Emotional videos and photographs of Iraqis with war wounds and disabilities have overwhelmed social media platforms, mainly Facebook, widely used in Iraq. Those who are lucky enough their appeal grab the attention of surgeons or volunteers to offer free treatment. Saja Saleem is one of them.

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Marking the anniversary of the country’s costly victory over the Islamic State group, Iraqi authorities removed cement walls from areas surrounding the capital’s most fortified enclave, opening parts of the so-called Green Zone to traffic to portray increased confidence in the country’s overall security situation and is also being billed as an act of transparency following protests against corruption and poor public services.

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This story is about how the plunge in oil prices dealt a heavy blow to Iraq’s stagnating oil-reliant economy at a time when the parliament was debating the 2019 budget. Fluctuating oil prices in international markets threaten Iraq's new government’s ability to rebuild after the devastating war with the Islamic State group and to provide basic services to areas roiled by recent protests.

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