Iraqi Kurdistan
Unlike their fellow Iraqis to the south under Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi Kurds enjoy relative freedom of information and press. Since the Kurds obtained protection by US and British warplanes after Iraqi forces brutally crushed their uprising after the Gulf War, a plethora of newspapers, magazines and journals are published in Kurdish held areas...Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan. 18/11/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell