Duraed Salman
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As Baghdad security improves, more women are plucking up the courage to drive around the capital’s once treacherous roads.
Once the target of extremists, beauty shops are slowly re-opening in the capital.
Motorbikes are all the rage in Baghdad as congestion caused by checkpoints, petrol queues and the sheer volume of cars on the road snarls up the city.
Multinational forces must disengage and leave Iraq to its people, but their departure should be phased rather than immediate.
Women and children increasingly falling victim to the capital’s kidnapping gangs.
IWPR reporter describes the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack in the capital.
Local economy likely to suffer after thousands of businesses go up in smoke.
There should be millions of dinar coins in circulation, but a combination of inflation and public resistance means no one wants to use them.
The first-ever credit card is launched under a plan to modernise banking.