IWPR
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
With the onset of cold weather this January, there have been frequent cases of gas poisoning among Turkmenistan’s population. In Ashgabat alone, seven families died from gas fumes in January. The cause of the poisoning was malfunctions in the Iranian-made
Turkmenistan is a multi-ethnic country and according to various estimates has up to 500,000 ethnic Uzbeks – making them the biggest minority at about nine per cent of the total population. Frontier regions in the north and northeast are densely populated
London-based Azzaman is issued daily by Saad al-Bazaz.
Al-Bayyna is a weekly paper issued by the Hezbollah movement in Iraq.
Awene is an independent newspaper issued three times per week in the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Sulaimaniyah.
Al-Mada is issued daily by Al-Mada institution for Media, Culture, and Arts.