Iraq

Former Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri Al-Maliki said in a meeting with educators that aired on Afaq TV (Iraq) on February 12, 2019 that Iraqi society is under "a dangerous attack" in the form of moral depravity that is taking place in the universities and elsewhere. He said that th...

In a February 3, 2019 interview on Mayadeen TV (Lebanon), Jaafar Al-Husseini, spokesman for the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades, said that U.S. President Trump has "gotten the world used to his stupidity" and that the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades will not allow any American presence in Iraq...

On January 30, 2019, Channel 2 TV (Iran) aired a report about the delivery of 30 tons of yellowcake from the Shahid Rezaeinzhad industrial complex in Ardakan, Iran to the Isfahan UCF nuclear plant, where the uranium will be enriched. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energ...

In a January 19, 2019 broadcast on Al-Baeenah TV (Iraq), Iraqi MP and former governor of Basra Khalaf Abdelsamad Khalaf asked: "How come the world media still talk about Hitler in a negative way?" He said that Hitler's crimes were not that much worse than Saddam Hussein's. Khalaf...

Karim Al-Nouri, who is a senior official at the Iraqi Badr Organization, said during a December 31, 2018 interview on Al-Nujaba TV (Iraq) that Trump came to visit Iraq like a "fearful and terrified thief." He said that the Badr Organization values the Iraqi government's agreement...

Omar Taha Mohammed, a captured ISIS hacker and terror operative, was interviewed on Al-Iraqiya TV (Iraq) on December 14, 2018. He said that he had belonged to an association of Caliphate hackers known as the United Cyber Caliphate (UCC), which hacked the accounts, devices, and we...

Sheikh 'Alaa Al-Musawi, who is the head of the Shiite Islamic Endowments in Iraq, said during a sermon that was uploaded to the Internet on December 25 that the non-Muslim monotheistic traditions and holidays, such as Christianity and Christmas, have been completely distorted, an...

Norway-based Jihadi scholar Mullah Fateh Krekar, who is the former leader of the Kurdish Sunni Jihadi group Ansar Al-Islam, was interviewed on NRT TV (Iraqi Kurdistan). He said that it should not be seen as out of the ordinary if a group like Al-Qaeda or ISIS loses its foothold i...

In a series of short interviews posted online by the Nas Media Company (Iraq), captured senior ISIS operative Saddam Al-Jamal said that ISIS had made oil deals with the Syrian regime and with the Russians. He said that ISIS would deliver thousands of tankers full of oil to t...

Lamya Bashar, a Yazidi girl who was in ISIS captivity for 20 months, was interviewed on ON TV (Egypt) on November 18, 2018. Lamya said that all her male family members were killed, and that she hasn't heard from her mother in over four years. She described the slave girl market a...

Iraqi sports commentators Qahtan Al-Maliki hurled insults at Algerian soccer fans for chanting anti-Shiite and pro-Saddam Hussein slogans during a September 9 soccer game between the visiting Iraqi Air Force club and the Algerian USMA home team. The Iraqi team left the field in p...

Leyla Talo, a Yazidi woman who was sold by ISIS as a sex slave, recounted her story on BBC Arabic TV. In the program, she said that she had been sold eight times and had been held with her children in a separate room, often being beaten and starved. She further said that her chil...

Iraqi Shiite cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-Lami gave an address in which he said that the Jews were involved in "everything that is happening in the world, especially in the Middle East," including car bombs, "religious and ideological deviations," economic ruin, destruction of infra...

Issam Al-Zoba'i aka Abu Abd Al-Haq Al-Iraqi, the 26-year-old commander of an Islamic State (ISIS) "strike force" in Al-Furat Province, was interviewed on Al-Arabiya TV. Al-Zoba'i, who was captured along with several other ISIS commanders in Syria last May, explained that ISIS los...

On September 13, Iraq's Al-Nujabaa TV channel claimed that leaks from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq have revealed a plot by U.S. intelligence and Gulf states to "generate strife and sow division" between Iraqis and Iranians during the month of Muharram and the upcoming Arba'een pilgri...

Omar Muhammed, founder of the English-language Mosul Eye blog portraying life in the Iraqi city of Mosul under ISIS rule, was interviewed by Deutsche Welle network's Arabic channel. Muhammad said that his motivation to launch the blog was that he had believed that someday people ...

Ali Al-Yasiri, Commander of the Secretary-General Khorasani Brigades militia in Iraq, said that Iraqi militia members deserve pay and benefits similar to those of Iraqi federal police officers, counter-terrorism operators, and soldiers in the Iraqi Army. He pointed out that milit...

Shiite Iraqi cleric Yassin Al-Musawi said in a recent TV interview that Saudi Arabia, which it called "our kindhearted neighboring country... that meek and calm kingdom that wants only what's best for us," sends us suicide bombers on a daily basis. "One day they send us ISIS, ano...

Jaafar Al-Husseini, spokesman for the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades, said that "we have been on Syrian soil since 2013, in coordination with the Syrian Arab Army" and that "we have engaged in battle and have had dozens of martyrs." Interviewed on Mayadeen TV on June 19, Al-Husseini fu...

Iraqi journalist Mahmoud Al-Hashemi said that the Jews had been "vomited by the wheel of history," that they had become "a burden on Europe – and indeed, on planet Earth as a whole," and that Hitler had slaughtered them and "sent them to the grinder" because they were using the b...

Shiite Iraqi scholar Yousuf Al-Nasseri, Deputy Secretary-General of the Hizbullah Al-Nujaba movement, said that "our top priority is to topple the political regime in the 'Kingdom of Sands' in the Arab Peninsula – the Saud clan," which was "footing the bill for all the massacres ...

Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Iraq Ahmed 'Aql complained that U.S. President Trump had recognized Jerusalem "as the capital of the Jewish people," saying that they constitute "a religion, not a people." Asked what would happen if the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units decided...

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki recently said that Palestine "will stretch from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, and we'll be done with this whole story." Speaking on the Iranian Al-Alam TV on May 30, Zaki further said: "Historically speaking, [the Jews] s...

Interviews with the five senior ISIS militants captured by the Iraqi military following a sting operation involving U.S. forces were broadcast by Al-Iraqiya TV on May 9. Saddam Omar Hussein Al-Jamal, a top ISIS commander in Deir Ezzor, recounted how he had pledged allegiance to I...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari said that U.S. President Donald Trump's Jerusalem decision was "another stupid decision in the history of America." The Americans, he said, should reexamine the conduct of their Founding Fathers, who "would not make stupid decisions like ...