Day: August 22, 2022

More than 200,000 Yazidis still displaced in Iraq

Eight years on since the Islamic State militant group’s massacres of Yazidis, more than 200,000 survivors are still displaced from their homes in Iraq, the United Nations said Thursday. The needs of displaced persons living in and outside camps, and re…

Read More . .

First Iraqi awarded the Ibn Rushd Prize in 2022

Dr. Saad Salloum, an Iraqi intellectual and activist for the rights of religious minorities and coexistence, will be awarded the Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought 2022. In a ceremony on Sept. 8, 2022, in Germany’s capital Berlin, Salloum and his M…

Read More . .