RETURN to Iraqi media after Saddam
The overthrow of Saddam Hussein led to an explosion of newspaper publishing in Iraq. Below is a list of all Iraqi newspapers and magazines that were known to be publishing in July 2003. It was compiled using information from the BBC Monitoring Service and Arab Press Freedom Watch. Those marked with an asterisk in the "comments" box first appeared after 5 June 2003.Some publications describing themselves as daily were actually published less frequently.
After this initial burst of activity many of them closed as the security situation deteriorated.
| Title | Frequency | Lang | Publisher/editor | Affiliation | Comments |
| 9 Nisan [9 April] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Lt-Gen Abdallah Hamid al-Miyahi; editor: Ali Abdallah al-Haydari | Independent Political Prisoners Organisation | Named after "the day on which the tyrant fell and the new Iraq was born". Chairman Miyahi was/is in the air force* |
| al-Aan [Now] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Adalah [Justice] |
Daily/twice weekly | Arabic | Supervisor: Adil al-Sayyid Abd-al-Mahdi | Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) | Currently published twice a week by Dar al-Adallah (House of Justice) of SCIRI* |
| Adwa [Lights] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Akram al-Rubay'i | Issued by "a group of journalists" * | |
| al-Ahali [The People] |
Arabic | Publisher: Husayn Sinjari; editor: Haval Zakhoubi | "The first liberal newspaper of Iraq".Published by al-Ahali House, Baghdad* | ||
| al-Ahd al-Jadid [The New Covenant] |
Weekly | Arabic | Founder/editor: Abd-al-Basit al-Naqqash | "Democratic, liberal independent" | |
| al-Ahrar [The Liberals] |
Daily/weekly | Arabic | Editor: Muhammad al-Hamdani | "The newspaper of all Arabs", currently published only on Sundays. Focuses on social issuesand calls for improvements in living conditions and the security situation. Shi'ite | |
| al-Akhbar [The News] |
Twice weekly | Arabic | Editor: Ali al-Sahrifi | Published by al-Akhbar Foundation for Press and Publication | |
| Akhbar Alyoum [Daily News] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Alam Bayn Yadayk [The World in Between Hands] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Wisam Karim al-Azzawi; editor: Ahmad Falah al-Amshawi | Issued by the Uruk Independent Media Organisation* | |
| al-Amal [Hope] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Atallah Abd-al-Ghafur Zaydan | "Political, economic, social, scientific, medical, and artistic" weekly issued by "an independent company"* | |
| al-Amal al-Islami [Islamic Action] |
Arabic | Chairman: Ala Salih al-Tu'mah; editor: Haydar Nawwaf al-Mas'udi | Islamic Action Organisation | * | |
| al-Aswaq [The Markets] |
Daily/twice weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Ihsan Abd-al-Razzaq; editor: Talal Tal'at | Iraqi Industries Union | Focuses on industry and commerce* |
| al-Aswar [The Walls] |
Daily | Arabic | Chairman: Arsan Yusuf al-Zu'bi; editor: Abd-al-Rahman al-Issawi | * | |
| al-Awdah [The Return] |
Fortnightly | Kurdish | Publisher: Shakir al-Faili | Social Society of Faili Kurds | |
| al-Awqat [The Times] |
Daily | Arabic | Editor: Mazhar Arif | Pan-Arab. Editor Arif was a columnist and writer for Babil, the paper that was run by Saddam Hussein's son, Uday * | |
| al-Ayyam [The Days] |
Daily/twice weekly | Arabic | Editor: Dr Taha Jazzar | Islamic nationalist; issued by Izdihar Company for Publishing and Distribution. Hopes "to become a daily newspaper and a forum for writers and educated journalists". Says it does not "represent the viewpoint of any party, movement, or direction". Currently issued on Sundays and Thursdays | |
| Azzaman [Time] |
Daily | Arabic | Publisher/editor: Sa'ad al-Bazzaz | Partly produced in London, though local stories are now edited in Baghdad | |
| Baghdad | Daily/weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Dr Iyad Allawi | Iraqi National Accord Movement | Report in the edition of 25 April 2003 said the paper had transferred its headquarters from London to Baghdad |
| Baghdad Bulletin | Fortnightly | English | Sales manager: Aziz R Sadek | News magazine "incorporated in the United Kingdom and distributed throughout Iraq". Says it is "independent of the occupying forces and not aligned with any political party"* | |
| Baghdad Online | Weekly | Editor: Ali Hasan Tarish | Baghdad Computer Society | Focuses on information technology* | |
| Baladi [My Country] |
Arabic | Chairman: Abbas al-Hamadi | Iraqi Folklore Poets Union | * | |
| al-Balagh [The Statement] |
Arabic | Editor: Malik Duhan al-Hasan; managing editor: Imran Rashid | National Independence Party | * | |
| al-Balat [The Palace Court] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Dr Sa'd al-Ubaydi | Iraqi National Coalition | * |
| al-Baqi | Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Shaykh Jasim al-Tamimi | al-Hawzah al-Ilmiyah | Issued by a Shi'a theological seminary in Najaf * |
| al-Bayan [The Manifesto] |
Daily | Arabic | Managing editor: Sadiq al-Rikabi | Islamic Da'wah Party | * |
| al-Bayda [White] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher/chairman: Mahmud al-Azzawi; editor: Ghazi Faysal | Iraqi National Bloc | Based in Mosul* |
| Brayati | Daily | Kurdish | Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) | ||
| al-Burkan [The Volcano] |
Daily | Arabic | Editor: Hatim Shihadhah Jasim | Says it is "not linked to any political party, organisation or trend". * | |
| al-Bursah [The Stock Exchange] |
Arabic | Began circulating in Baghdad in early July 2003 * | |||
| Dar al-Salam [House of Peace] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Fadil Dulan; editor: Ali Baban | Iraqi Islamic Party | Its title is the name originally given to Baghdad by the city's founder, the Abbasid caliph Abu-Ja'far al-Mansur* |
| al-Da'wah [The Call] |
Arabic | Chairman: Abd-al-Karim al-Inzi, and the editor-in-chief is Hasan Sa'id | Islamic Da'wah Party | Shi'a paper which opposes a government formed under the authority of a foreign power | |
| Dijlah [Tigris] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Nadhir Kazim al-Rubay'i | * | |
| al-Dimuqrati [The Democrat] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Rahim Abu-Hari al-Sa'di | Iraqi Rally for Democracy | |
| al-Diyar [The Country; the Homeland] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Ala-al-Din Kazim; editor: Walid al-Tamimi | "Self-financed, independent, general, cultural, political weekly newspaper" which provides news "freely and without any restrictions."* | |
| al-Dustur [The Constitution] |
Daily | Arabic | Chairman: Basim al-Shaykh; managing editor: Muhammad Harun Hasan | Political daily* | |
| Fajr Baghdad [Baghdad Dawn] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Ali al-Dulaymi; editors: Ali al-Nashmi and Salah Abbas | Claims to be "the first democratic, independent newspaper to be published in Iraq after the change." | |
| al-Fikr al-Islami [Islamic Thought] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Firdaws [Paradise] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Fahd al-Gharib; editor: Muhammad Sahi Awwad | Free Democratic People's Party | Magazine* |
| Gandeel | Arabic | ||||
| al-Ghadir [The Brook] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Sa'd al-Shammari; editor: Hasan Hatif al-Yasiri | "Speaks for the masses"* | |
| Govari Gulan | Monthly | Kurdish | Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) | Magazine | |
| Habazbuz fi Zaman al-Awlamah [Habazbuz in the Age of Globalization] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Jasim Yusuf al-Yasiri; editor: Ishtar al-Yasiri | "Habazbuz" is a name used in Iraqi folklore with no specific meaning. Satirical weekly, "neither eastern nor western, self-financed, and issued by authorisation from the public." | |
| al-Hadaf [The Target] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Diya Muhammad Taqiy | Issued by the al-Hadaf Foundation for Publication and Advertisement. * | |
| al-Hadath [The Event] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Athir Sa'dun Hamad; editor: Muhammad al-Juburi | * | |
| al-Haqiqah [The Truth] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher/editor: Abbas Kamil | Published on Tuesdays. Appears to support Abd-al-Karim Qasim, head of the 1958 coup against the monarchy and Iraqi leader until the Ba'ath Party coup of 1963 | |
| al-Hawadith [The Events] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher/editor: Muhammad al-Ani | * | |
| Hawal | Weekly | Kurdish | |||
| Hawlati | Weekly | Kurdish | |||
| al-Hawzah [Shi'i religious school] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Shaykh Abbas al-Rubay'i; editor: Shaykh Hasan al-Zarkani | "Cultural, religious" newspaper issued every Thursday* | |
| al-Hayah al-Iraqiyah [Iraqi Life] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Sayyid Hamzah al-Musawi | 15 Sha'ban Islamic Movement | * |
| al-Hilal [The Crescent] |
Daily | Arabic | Chairman: Dr Abd-al-Wahhab Inad Mi'jil; editor: Imad al-Jalal | Currently issued every Tuesday* | |
| al-Hiwar [The Dialogue] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Dr Sultan al-Ku'ud; editor: Abd- al-Azim Muhammad | National Front for Iraqi Intellectuals | |
| al-Hurr [The Free] |
Arabic | Editor: Nabil Sa'ib Ali al-A'raji | Free Islamic Grouping | * | |
| al-Hurriyah [Freedom] |
Arabic | Editor: Husam al-Saffar | Arab Democratic Nationalists Movement | Calls for broad participation in decisionmaking and positively assesses the US presence | |
| al-Hurriyah al-Ula [First Freedom] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Muhammad Jasim Hamzah | * | |
| al-Iqtisadi al-Jadid [The New Economist] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman/editor: Muhammad Ja'far Dawud | Economic magazine issued by al-Muthana Publishing Group* | |
| al-Iraq al-Jadid [New Iraq] |
Daily | Arabic | Editor: Abbas Kazim Mahdi | "Published with the empowerment of the Iraqi national conscience" | |
| al-Iraq al-Riyadi [Iraqi Sports] |
Weekly | Arabic | Sports Paper | ||
| al-Iraq al-Yawm [Iraq Today] |
Arabic | Editor: Isra Shakir | Issued by "a group of Iraqi journalists"* | ||
| al-Iraqi [The Iraqi] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Hamid al-Mukhtar | Islamic Cultural Forum | * |
| al-Istiqlal [Independence] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Mudar Ghassan Shakat; editor: Kudayyir Miri | Issued on Saturdays | |
| al-Ittihad [The Union] |
Thrice weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Kamal Fu'ad; editor: Adil Murad | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) | Published three times weekly in Baghdad and Sulaymaniyah. Said to be printing 30,000 copies in Baghdad |
| al-Ittihad al-Riyadi [Sports Union] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Ittijah al-Akhar [The Other Direction] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman/editor: Mish'an al-Juburi | Nationalist newspaper issued by the al-Ittijah al-Akhar printing and publication establishment in The Hague. Chairman/editor Juburi is head of al-Watan party* | |
| al-Jamahir [The Masses] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Ali al-Hamdani; editor: Abd-al-Rahman al-Isawi | Iraqi National Congress | * |
| Jammawar | Weekly | Kurdish | |||
| al-Jaridah [The Newspaper] |
Daily/thrice weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Abdallah al-Nasrawi; editor: Prof Qays al-Azzawi | Arab Socialists | Issued on Monday, Wednesday and Friday |
| al-Jazirah [The Peninsula] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Zaydan Khalaf al- Awwad; editor: Mahmud Awwad Hammadi | * | |
| Kaldu Ashur | Arabic | The supplement of Regay Kurdistan, for Assyrians | |||
| al-Kawthar [Paradise] |
Arabic | Iraqi Information network | Magazine | ||
| Khabat | Weekly | Kurdish | Islamic Unity Movement | Circulates in the north and, more recently, in Baghdad | |
| Komal | Fortnightly | Kurdish | Islamic Group of Iraqi Kurdistan | ||
| Kul Jadid [Everything New] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Ahmad al-Mani'i | New Iraq Renaissance Movement | |
| Kurdistan Nuwe | Daily | Kurdish | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) | ||
| Liberator | English | Published in the US | |||
| al-Liwa [The Banner] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Rafid Salman Muhsin; editor: Nazim al-Sa'ud | "Speaks for the Iraqi people"* | |
| al-Madar [The Orbit] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman/editor: Isam Mikha'il | Issued by al-Madar House for Publishing and Distribution. * | |
| al-Majd [Glory] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Khamis Ahmad; editor: Iyad al-Hamdani | Royal Constitutional Movement | |
| al-Malaib [The Playgrounds] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Manar [The Lighthouse] |
Daily | Arabic | Chairman/editor: Muhammad Hamid | First established 1945* | |
| al-Marjan [Corals] |
Arabic | Children's magazine | |||
| al-Masa [Evening] |
Arabic | It is issued by "a group of Iraqi journalists". * | |||
| al-Mawsil [Mosul] |
Arabic | Publisher: Iyad al-Hamdani; managing editor: Chakir Khalil al-Ali | Iraqi National Congress | ||
| Mujtama al-A'mal al-Iraqi [The Iraqi Business Community] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Raghib Rida Bulaybil; editor: As'ad al-Aquli | Iraqi Businessmen's Association | "Professional, economic weekly magazine"* |
| al-Multaqa [The Forum] |
Daily/twice weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Karim al-Khafaji; editor: Abbas Khalil | Currently issued twice weekly | |
| al-Mustaqilla [The Independent] |
Weekly | Arabic | Managing editor: Mu'ayyad al-Samsam | Says it is a "free forum for the sincere national writers" and "not linked to any political party"* | |
| al-Mu'tamar [The Congress] |
Weekly | Arabic | Oqail al-Ta'i | Iraqi National Congress (INC) | |
| al-Muwajaha [Encounter] |
Weekly | Arabic, English | Ra'id Jasim al-Izzawi | Iraqi Students* | |
| al-Naba [The News] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Hadi al-Ziyadi; publisher: Khalil al-Atwani | Issued by "a group of Iraqi journalists". Aims to report "without ambiguity or bias". Editorial on 15 May 2003 called for US-led forces to leave Iraq | |
| Nabdh al-Shari [Street Pulse] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Nahar [The Day] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Karim Kazim al-Khafaji; editor: Abbas Khalil | * | |
| al-Nahdah [The Renaissance] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Fadil Kamil al-Daraji | Edited by "free, independent writers"* | |
| al-Nahdah [The Renaissance] |
Daily/twice weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Adnan Pachachi | Association of Independent Democrats | "Daily political newspaper issued temporarily twice a week."* |
| Nahrayn [The Two Rivers] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Muntasir al-Imarah; deputy: Samir Muhsin | Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) | * |
| al-Nas [The People] |
Arabic | Publisher/editor: Sa'di al-Khalidi | * | ||
| al-Natur [The Scarecrow] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Jalil al-Basri | "Satirical, critical, and comical"* | |
| al-Nawaris [Morning Birds] |
Arabic | ||||
| Nida al-Mustaqbal [Call of the Future ] |
Daily | Arabic | Publisher: Muhammad Khurshid | Iraqi National Accord Movement (INAM) | |
| Nidaa Arrafidain [Call of the Two Rivers] |
Arabic | Bayan Jabr | |||
| al-Nur [The Light] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Salim Ahmad Ibrahim | Political weekly, currently issued fortnightly. Not to be confused with paper of the same name issued by the Islamic Cultural Centre in Baghdad. * | |
| al-Nur [The Light] |
Weekly | Arabic | Islamic Cultural Centre, Baghdad | Supports Grand Ayatollah Sistani and says Shi'a religious authorities are the legitimate representatives of the Iraqi people | |
| al-Olympi al-Iraqi [Olympic Iraqi] |
Weekly | Arabic | Sports magazine | ||
| Oyoon al-Fan [Artistic Masterpieces] |
Weekly | Arabic | Dr. Hussain Ali Harif | ||
| al-Qabas [The Flag] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Abdallah al-Lami | New Iraq Charitable Society | Nationalist* |
| Qanadil [Lanterns] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Ahmad Khalid al-Ghayyad | * | |
| Qardashliq Yedu | Fortnightly | Turkoman, Kuurdish, Arabic | Turkoman Brotherhood Party | ||
| al-Raqib [The Observer] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Abd-al-Wahhab al-Samarra'I; chairman: Ziyad al-Zubaydi | Issued every Saturday* | |
| al-Rasid [The Monitor] |
Daily | Arabic | Currently issued Saturday and Tuesday* | ||
| al-Rasif [The Pavement] |
Daily | Arabic | Publisher: Husayn al-Ayas | One-man newspaper handwritten by Husayn al-Ayash, an unemployed Iraqi electrician, on sheets of cardboard and displayed on the pavement in Sa'dun Street, Baghdad* | |
| al-Ra'y al-'Amm [Public Opinion] |
Daily | Arabic | Chairman: Muhammad Jasim Hamzah; editor: Wasal Amir Musi | * | |
| Regay Kurdistan | Weekly | Kurdish | Communist Party of Iraqi Kurdistan | ||
| al-Rihab [The open space] |
Arabic | Chairman: Dr Nabil al-Janabi; editor: Mahmud al-Hashimi | Democratic Royal Coalition | Named after the palace where republican officers killed the last king of Iraq, Faysal II, and other members of the royal family on 14 July 1958* | |
| al-Risalah [The Message] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Dr Fadil al-Shuwayli; managing editor: Dr Shanshul al-Sulaymawi | Political, cultural and religious issues. * | |
| al-Riyadi al-Jadid | Arabic | ||||
| al-Sa'ah [The Hour] |
Twice weekly | Arabic | Iraqi Unified National Movement (?) | Seems to be connected to Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Kubaysi, but an internal rift led to the publication of two separate editions on 14 June 2003 - one pro-Kubaysi, one anti-Kubaysi* | |
| al-Sabah Morning] | Daily/twice weekly | Arabic | Ismail al-Zair | Coalition Provisional Authority (Iraqi Information Network) | Launched on 17 May 2003; published every Tuesday and Saturday |
| al-Sada [The Echo] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Dr Sadiq Abbadi; editor: Qasim al-Maliki | ||
| Sada al-Hal [Echo of the Solution] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Hasan Salih Hasan | Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party | * |
| Sada al-Sadr [Echo of al-Sadr] |
Arabic | ||||
| Sada al-Ummah [Echo of the Nation] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Razzaq al-Nuri | Supreme Council for the Liberation of Iraq | * |
| Sadr al-Iraq | Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Karim Amir Unayz; editor: Amir Hamid | Its title refers to two prominent Iraqi Shi'a clergymen, Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and Muhammad Sadiq al- Sadr* | |
| al-Safir [The Ambassador] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher/editor: Dr. Raad Jasim | Shi'ite | |
| al-Salam [Peace] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Taha Hamid al-Shibibi | Fraternity and Peace Movement | |
| Samir | Arabic | Magazine for children | |||
| Sawt al-Jumaa [Friday Voice] |
Arabic | ||||
| Sawt al-Talabah [Voice of the Students] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Mustafa al-Hayim | New Iraq Youth and Students Organisation | Currently issued fortnightly by Iraqi students* |
| Sawt al-Tali'ah [Voice of the Vanguards] |
Weekly | Arabic | Supervisor: Yahya al-Najjar | Islamic Vanguards Organisation | Issued every Sunday* |
| al-Shaheed [The Martyr] |
Arabic | Hadi Al Modarissi | Islamic Action Party | Shi'ite | |
| al-Shahid [The Witness] |
Weekly | Arabic | Manager: Ali Husayn | * | |
| al-Shams [The Sun] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman/editor: Karim Masht al-Musawi | Shi'ite* | |
| al-Sharia | Weekly | Arabic | Saad Ibrahim | Islamic | |
| Shihab al-Tamimi | Weekly | Arabic | |||
| al-Shira [The Sail] |
Weekly | Arabic | Proprietors: Abd-al-Wahhab Hantush and Ra'id Talib Hasan; editor: Abd-al-Husayn Buraysim | * | |
| al-Shira al-Siyasi [The Political Sail] |
Twice weekly | Arabic | Chairman/editor: Dr Sattar Ghanim | Every Tuesday and Thursday. * | |
| al-Shrooq [Sunrise] |
Arabic | Magazine | |||
| al-Shula [The Torch] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Siyasah al-Yawm [Politics Today] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Ghanim al-Fatlawi; editor: Jabbar al-Fartusi | * | |
| Spotlight | Arabic | Chairman: Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ubaydi; editor: Fayan al-Khalidi | Its title appears in English with a small Arabic translation beneath, but the paper itself is in Arabic* | ||
| Sumer | Daily | Arabic | Editor: Hasan al-Alawi | Coalition Provisional Authority | Published in Kuwait* |
| al-Taakhi [Fraternity] |
Daily | Kuurdish, Arabic | Falakeddin Kaka'ie | Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) | Editor is a member of the Kurdistan parliament. Paper says it will be "democratic" and represent different political and ethnic groups. Claims a circulation of 20,000 in Baghdad |
| al-Tadamun [Solidarity] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Mazhar Muhammad Abd; editor: Faris al- Katib | Reconciliation and Peace Party | * |
| al-Tajammu [The Grouping] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Dr Zuhayr Abd-al-Amir Hammudi; editor: Hammudi Azab | Iraqi Popular Grouping | |
| Tariq ash-Sha'ab [The Way of the People] |
Monthly | Arabic | Iraqi Communist Party | Previously available only in the north, it is now also sold in Baghdad. | |
| al-Tayyar [The Current or Trend] |
Arabic | Chairman: Aziz al-Yasiri; editor: Muhammad al-Askari | Founded in London in 1982* | ||
| al-Thiqalayn | Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Basim al-Shaykh | Religious weekly. Title is ann Islamic religious term meaning the two worlds of genies and men * | |
| Turkomaneli | Fortnightly | Turkoman, Arabic | Turkoman Brotherhood Party | ||
| Umm al-Rabi'ayn [Mother of the two springs] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Alman Muhammad Ali; editor: Ghanim Isma'il | Its title is one of the older Arabic names for Mosul* | |
| Wadi al-Rafidayn [Mesopotamia] |
Weekly | Arabic | Proprietor: Sakfan al-Barwari; editor: Dulufan Muhammad Salih | * | |
| al-Wahda al-Watania [National Unity] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Wasat [The Centre] |
Weekly | Arabic | Publisher: Ali al-Sayyid Yusha; editor: Riyad Muhammad al-Isma'ili | Unified National Coalition | * |
| al-Watan [The Homeland] |
Weekly | Arabic | Chairman: Hatim Mawlud Mukhlis; editor: Hatif al-Thalj | Iraqi National Movement | |
| al-Watan al-Iraqiyah [The Iraqi Homeland] |
Arabic | Editor: Abd-al-Razzaq Abd-al-Wahhab Husayn | Iraqi National Unity Coalition | Published in Maysan* | |
| al-Yageen [Certainty] |
Arabic | ||||
| al-Yaqazah [The Awakening] |
Daily | Arabic | Founder/editor: Muhan al-Zahir | * | |
| al-Yawm al-Akhar [The Other Day] |
Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Faris al-Katib | ||
| al-Zahra | Arabic | ||||
| al-Zawra | Weekly | Arabic | Editor: Shihab al-Tamimi | Iraqi Journalists Union | Issued before in 1969. al-Zawra is one of several Arabic names for Baghdad; it is also the name of the first Iraqi paper published in Baghdad in 1869* |
