Controversial Iraqi paramilitary leader’s arrest could give PM al-Kadhimi impetus before October parliamentary polls.
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Demonstrators take to the streets after the killing of civil activist Ehab Jawad al-Wazi near his home in Karbala.
![Some older men and women also took to the streets in a show of support [Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/000_9AQ77J.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Fatigued and overloaded, health workers struggle to cope with a second wave of the coronavirus in Iraq.
Zahraa Ghandour and her mentor Hanaa Edwar have broken tradition to voice the struggles of women in their community.
![[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Womens-Series-5.png?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Iraq’s youth protesters are demanding an end to corruption in the oil industry 30 years after the Gulf War.
![Sally Mars, a 24-year-old Iraqi woman who joined protests against the government, wants to see her country's oil wealth used to help its people, not lost to corruption [Courtesy: Sally Mars]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SallyMars1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Sentences spark outrage across the Kurdish region where press freedom has been in precipitous decline for some time.
![The journalists were found guilty on Tuesday by an Erbil criminal court of jeopardising Kurdish national security [File: Anatolia via AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/kurdistan.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Families continue fight for justice three decades after deadliest incident of civilian casualties caused by US in Iraq.
![Iraqis visit the Amiriyah Shelter on memorial day, in remembrance of those who died in the American bombing that took place there in 1991 [File: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-563606981.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
More than 100 wounded after commercial area in centre of Iraqi capital hit by explosions, death toll likely to rise.
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From Soleimani’s assassination to nationwide anti-government protests, Al Jazeera reviews Iraq’s main events this year.
![Iraqi demonstrators chant slogans during a gathering in Haboubi Square in the southern city of Nasiriya to demand an overhaul of the political system [File: Assaad al-Niyazi/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8U236Q.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Latest deadly skirmish highlights the deteriorating security situation in the Kurdish region.
![A member of the Halgurd Brigade of the Peshmerga stands guard at a newly constructed outpost close to the town of Sidekan [Adam Gnych/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/kurdistan_06.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)