Iraq

Far from the public eye, carefully blanketed by mainstream media silence, the holy city of Karbala saw this early November its numbers of inhabitants swell by an estimated 17 million and counting. From all four corners of the world...

On one hand, the United States is demanding that Iranian-backed militias "leave" Iraq, claiming the fight against the self-titled "Islamic State" (IS is over. On the other hand, the US and its European partners are still funneling...

While the US and European media provided little explanation as to how militants from the self-titled Islamic State (IS managed to appear, expand and then fight for years against the combined military power of Iraq, Syria...