EXPLAINER Iraq has been unable to form a government since it held parliamentary elections in October last year. More than nine months after Iraq held its October 2021 parliamentary elections, political leaders have been unable to form a government. The country’s political crisis reached a […]

Listen to this story: Duhok, northern Iraq – Rawnaq Abdulrahman peeks out of the door of her counselling room and invites Ahmad in. The slim 37-year-old settles across from the psychotherapist, his leather jacket melting into the comfortable leather armchair. A lamp floods the room […]

Baghdad, Iraq – A mosque pulled down by tractors, angry protesters setting buildings on fire, and police arrests: despite their relatively small-scale, recent events across a few cities in Iraq were enough to startle the country over the last month, and all were linked to […]