Section: Rights

Accountability

Camp Speicher: 1,700 Killed in One Day — Iraq's Largest Single ISIS Massacre and the Unfinished Reckoning

Camp Speicher: 1,700 Killed in One Day — Iraq's Largest Single ISIS Massacre and the Unfinished Reckoning On June 12, 2014 — two days after ISIS seized Mosul — the group executed between 1,500 and 1,700 Iraqi Air Force c…

31 May 2026

Reconstruction

Taza Khurmatu 2016: The ISIS Chemical Attack That the World Chose to Ignore

Taza Khurmatu 2016: The ISIS Chemical Attack That the World Chose to Ignore On March 8, 2016, ISIS launched a chemical weapons attack on Taza Khurmatu — a Shia Turkmen town south of Kirkuk. Hundreds were injured. Childre…

14 April 2026

Christians

Iraq's Minorities and the Constitution: Rights on Paper, Reality on the Ground

Iraq's Minorities and the Constitution: Rights on Paper, Reality on the Ground By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com "The laws guarantee rights, but they are not ap…

15 July 2024