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A buyer inspects a weapon inside a shop selling firearms in Baghdad March 2, 2006. Fearful of sectarian attacks since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on February 22, Iraqis are barricading homes and stocking up on weapons in a country already awash with guns. Picture taken March 2, 2006. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber - RTR16W8K

سوق صريحة لبيع الأسلحة في العراق لا يعرف المسؤولن عنها شيء!

Omar al-Jaffal

A member of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) sleeps during a vote counting session for the parliamentary election at an analysis centre in Baghdad May 11, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR3ON4B

تسريب نتائج الانتخابات العراقيّة.. والمفوضيّة العليا المستقلة غير مسؤولة

Omar al-Jaffal

Osama al-Nujaifi, speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, casts his vote at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Baghdad April 30, 2014. Iraqis headed to the polls on Wednesday in their first national election since U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq in 2011, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seeking a third term amid rising violence. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) - RTR3N8XT

من يحظى برئاسة الجمهوريّة في العراق.. السنّة أم الأكراد؟

Omar al-Jaffal

Girls wash dishes outside their house in a slum neighbourhood in Baghdad's Sadr City July 31, 2007. About 30 poor families make a living by gathering junk at the dumpsite in Sadr City, a vast slum in northeastern Baghdad. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ) - RTR1SEUJ

أزمة السكن تستفحل بالعراق

Omar al-Jaffal

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Iraqi security forces react at the scene of a car bomb attack at a Shi'ite political organisation's rally in Baghdad, April 25, 2014. A series of explosions killed 18 people at a Shi'ite political organisation's rally in Iraq on Friday, police and medical sources said. The militant group, Asaib Ahl Haq (League of the Righteous), introduced its candidates for elections on April 30 at the rally in eastern Baghdad. Three bombs exploded in succes

العراق: كتل سياسيّة تتّهم جهات حكوميّة بقتل مرشّحيها للانتخابات

Omar al-Jaffal

A woman with ink-stained fingers, holds a walking stick at a polling station in Baghdad's Sadr City March 7, 2010. Polling stations opened in Iraq on Sunday for a parliamentary election seen as crucial to the future of a country seeking stability after years of bloodshed. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - RTR2CEG2

الانتخابات العراقية بلمسة نسائية

Omar al-Jaffal

Police officers search a vehicle at a checkpoint, as security increases after a bomb attack, at Abu Ghraib district, west of Baghdad, January 9, 2014. A suicide bomber killed 13 Iraqi army recruits and wounded more than 30 in Baghdad on Thursday, police said, in an attack on men responding to a government appeal for volunteers to help fight al Qaeda-linked militants in Anbar province. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY) - RTX177MB

العراق: خشية من تحوّل "سوات" إلى قوة ضاربة بيد المالكي

Omar al-Jaffal

An Iraqi homeless person sleeps inside a street tunnel in central Baghdad, 14 November 2007. A roadside bomb attack targeting a US patrol near Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone killed today two Iraqi civilians and wounded three, security officials said. AFP PHOTO/SABAH ARAR (Photo credit should read SABAH ARAR/AFP/Getty Images)

المشرّدون في العراق.. الدولة تهملهم والميليشيات تستغلهم

Omar al-Jaffal

Iraqi Shi'ite fighters demonstrate with their weapons during a military-style training at a camp in on the outskirt of Damascus February 13, 2014. Picture taken February 13, 2014. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTX18VD3

العراق يخشى عودة الفصائل الشيعيّة التي تقاتل في سوريا

Omar al-Jaffal

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks at the opening day of a counter-terrorism conference in Baghdad, March 12, 2014. REUTERS/Karim Kadim/Pool (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3GRM5

مؤتمر مكافحة الإرهاب في بغداد.. دعوة ليوم عالمي لتخليد الضحايا؟

Omar al-Jaffal

A police officer talks to a taxi driver at a checkpoint during a curfew in Baghdad November 24, 2006. Baghdad was under curfew on Friday and the government appealed for calm after car bombs in a Shi'ite stronghold killed 202 in the bloodiest single attack of the war, pushing Iraq closer to the abyss of anarchy. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ) - RTR1JNM5

سيارات الأجرة في بغداد.. "حانات" متنقّلة

Omar al-Jaffal

People sit outside a cafe in Baghdad December 1, 2011. The last 13,000 U.S. troops will pull out of Iraq by the end of the year. Violence in the country has dropped sharply since the heights of sectarian slaughter in 2006-2007, but at least 10 people were killed in a bombing just north of the capital Baghdad. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (IRAQ - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT SOCIETY) - RTR2UPPL

"الدمبلة" في العراق: إدمان الوهم

Omar al-Jaffal