Perhaps one of the most deadly terrorist attacks in the last decade hit Baghdad last night. The death toll is at 200 and climbing by the minute. The victims were mainly families out preparing for Eid or celebrating. People were trapped and burning for hours after the explosion. There is little to no media coverage. No one is mourning, no one believes this is relevant, no one cares. 200 families destroyed. It’s so frustrating. What is it about Iraqi blood that makes it so cheap? Why is our misery okay? Why does the world light up for literally everywhere else? I just want to know why does no one care when it comes to Iraq. Our martyrs don’t get pictures or names. They become a number that people ignore.
A man dressed in a Santa Claus outfit hands souvenir, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq, 2015.
© Haidar Hamdani
Revelers hang out of a traveling car in celebration of a wedding, Kufa, Iraq, Matt Moyer.
Yazidis refugee families prepare dinner. 2014. Iraq.
© Ali Arkady
Last June, ISIS took Mosul, the militants painted a red Arabic ‘‘n,’’ for Nasrane, a slur, on Assyrian Christian homes. Many residents managed to escape fled to Qaraqosh, less than 20 miles east on the Nineveh Plain, a 1,500-square-mile plot of contested land that lies between Kurdistan and Iraq, Peter van Agtmael.
Iraqi men and women wait outside a mosque in Khadimiya, Baghdad, for Friday Prayers.
Iraqi Security Forces hand out water to protesters in Baghdad, who are thanked later for protecting them. The protester’s main issue is with corrupt politicians, where as the security forces are widely supported.
Overall peaceful protests in Baghdad
protesters in Baghdad chant “We redeem our souls & blood for the sake of Iraq”
