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October 2019 marked the beginning of the biggest grassroots social movement in Iraq’s modern history  Kataib Hezbollah, Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and other pro-Iran militias crushed the protests through murder and intimidation Updated 12 May 2021 May 11, 2021 18:52 IRBIL/BOGOTA: Mustafa Makki Karim, 24, fled Baghdad for the relative safety of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region last year following a spate of death threats by pro-Iran groups for his role in the protest movement that erupted against government corruption and incompetence in October 2019. During the unrest that followed, the yo...

Iraqis with perceived links to Daesh face barriers to obtaining documentation or returning to their homes Aid agencies fear children and women left stranded in camps may become a permanent underclass Updated 04 May 2021 May 03, 2021 23:43 NINEVEH/IRBIL/BOGOTA: Since the collapse of Daesh’s so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, many Western nations have been reluctant to allow the families of fighters to return for legal, political and security reasons. But the issue is equally complicated in the two war-weary Arab countries that the “caliphate” straddled while it lasted. More than thr...