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Suadad al-Salhy

Suadad al-Salhy is a freelance reporter covering Iraqi politics and security. She is a former Reuters correspondent who has written for the New York Times, Al Jazeera, Newsweek, the Telegraph and Arab News. In 2022, she won the journalist of the year prize at the Drum Online Media Awards for her reporting for Middle East Eye. On Twitter: @suadadalsalhy

A military marching band plays outside during the first provincial council elections in a decade, at a polling station in the central city of Najaf, on December 18, 2023. The vote comes at a time of widespread disillusionment among the country's 43 million inhabitants, with endemic corruption eating away at the oil-rich nation. (Photo by Qassem al-KAABI / AFP) (Photo by QASSEM AL-KAABI/AFP via Getty Images)

2023 in review: Iraq's pro-Iran factions make gains, but so do Sunni groups

Suadad al-Salhy

In Baghdad, reporting on politics and security

NINEVEH, IRAQ - JUNE 20: Iraqi PMF fighters June 20, 2017 on the Iraq-Syria border in Nineveh, Iraq. The Popular Mobilisation Front (PMF) forces, composed of majority Shi'ite militia, part of the Iraqi forces, have pushed Islamic State militants from the north-western Iraq border strip back into Syria. The PMF now hold the border, crucial to the fall of Islamic State in Mosul, blocking the Islamic State supply route for militants from Syria to Mosul. (Martyn Aim/Getty Images).

No consensus yet among Iraqi armed groups on joining Israel-Hamas war

Suadad al-Salhy

In Baghdad, reporting on politics and security