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Baghdad honors prized poet Jawahiri with museum
The Baghdad municipality dedicated the house of the late Iraqi poet Muhammad Mahdi Al Jawahiri last Saturday (Aug 13) as a museum to honor his life and work. The poet had left Iraq over four decades ago due to his political stance against…
Baghdad’s new media museum tells story of Arabic TV’s birth
In 1954, Iraq became the first Arab nation to broadcast television programs. Sixty-eight years later, the country has opened a space dedicated to the history of the Baghdad media scene -making the new Iraqi Media Museum the first of its…
Private sector blames woes on political stalemate
The long delay in forming a new Iraqi government, absence of federal budget, and disruption of Parliament, have negatively affected agreements with Arab and international countries.
When speaking to A24, Iraqi analysts unanimously agreed…
Sadrists expand protests to Iraq’s courts
The Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council suspended its work hours after Sadrist movement supporters expanded to the Judicial Council building the sit-in they started two weeks ago in front of the parliament building in Green Zone in Baghdad. Most…
Despite higher oil revenues-consumer price hike and poltical uncetainty unnerve public
Despite higher oil prices filling the central bank with foreign currency reserves, everyday Iraqis worry the ongoing political crisis will lead to an erosion of their standard of living. On Sunday, Ammar Khalaf, the central bank's deputy…
Iraq collapse: Bodies pulled from rubble after landslide hits shrine
Emergency workers in central Iraq are racing to rescue people from a Shia shrine that collapsed.
Four bodies have been found, while six survivors have been pulled from the rubble so far. Several others are believed to be…
Analysts warn about worsening political crisis
Political crisis is still looming over Iraq, as Coordination Framework leaders, supporting formation of a consensus government headed by Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, search for alternative solutions to obtain the approval of Sadrist movement;…
Iraqis call on political parties to forge a roadmap to end government paralysis
Ordinary Iraqis are increasingly anxious over the continued sit-in and political standoff at the parliament building in Baghdad. Baghdad resident Abu Seif Al-Salawi told A24 that the Iraqi people are victims of their politicians' stalemate…
Al-Sadr postpones demonstrations of his supporters… and “al Sadr’s minister” says coordination…
The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced, on Tuesday, the postponement of their demonstration, which was scheduled for next Saturday, "until further notice." This announcement came at a time when the political…
Tishreen Movement activists declare at a conference in Baghdad adherence to their demands and…
A group of Tishreen movement activists held a conference in Iraqi capital Baghdad titled "Iraqi Protest Movement", during which they declared adherence to implementing their demands of forming a government of national salvation, changing…