haroun esmail

Journalist. Retweets/likes are NOT endorsements.

[haroun esmail @HarounEsmail]

https://t.co/towiGDFJGr

Over the last few month’s I have been working with @Chesh @SamDoak5 to understand how Daesh operates on TikTok

Nasheeds which were originally created and distributed by Isis’s Ajnad Media Foundation have gone viral with thousands of people using them

[Sky News @SkyNews]

British special forces 'dropped prisoners from forklift for fun', Afghanistan Inquiry hears

https://t.co/kermCZQJ3J

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Somali referee Omar Artan, who was set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup finals, has been denied entry to the United States.

[Matt Hughes @MattHughesMedia]

Champions League final will not be free to watch in UK for first time in competition’s history. Rights holders TNT Sport have also scrapped free streams of Europa and Conference finals despite misgivings from UEFA. | The Guardian https://t.co/UuduIIbaj2

[Renwar Najm @RenwarNajm]

Today, a death sentence was handed down to a notorious Saddam Hussein-era prison warden, bringing long-overdue relief to survivors. This is the story of one survivor whose family was torn apart after three of her siblings were brutally killed in a desert prison in southern Iraq. Her life was forever changed, but she never gave up until she found her torturer.

https://t.co/b9AsVTNXo4

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:

“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.

Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”

It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇮🇶 NEW: The US has reportedly denied visas for five Iraqi players ahead of the World Cup next month

Luton Town striker Ali al-Hamadi is among them

[@Ntv_Iraq]

[Gerry @GerryKeogh_]

This is not democracy at work it’s a complete erosion of national sovereignty and accountability.

I genuinely thought it was a joke at first. A guy who only arrived in the country in 2021, on a temporary student/graduate visa, with no long-term commitment to Scotland , no roots here, and apparently fundraising for his next visa just to stay… has now been elected as an MSP for the Scottish Greens in Edinburgh & Lothians East.

He can now help shape laws, spending, and policy that affect Scottish taxpayers, communities, housing, services, and culture for years while his own right to be here could be temporary.

This isn’t “diversity” or “inclusion.” This is fucking lunacy.

[Renwar Najm @RenwarNajm]

World Press Freedom Day:

Across all of Iraq only two journalists are currently imprisoned, both in the Kurdistan Region, and both on highly political and unfair charges.

If the KRG wants support and sympathy, both at home and internationally, it should listen to global watchdogs like HRW, Amnesty International and CPJ, and release these unjustly imprisoned journalists.

https://t.co/j0c4OoAv0I

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

The pro-Pahlavi Iranian diaspora fascist right marching in Manchester:

[Heidar @TheorePhysics]

If this image is real, it reveals what Ahmadinejad is up to during this war.

[Zoom News @zoomnewskrd]

Kurdish players of the Iraqi national team celebrate their World Cup qualification while proudly waving the Kurdistan flag.

🎥: Yariga

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

How is this suppose to be the job of a journalist?

[Hoshang Waziri هوشنك وزيري @HoWaziri]

This is bad journalism, lacking basic knowledge, sensational to the point of disinformation.
Did your fixer not tell you this is an #Iraqi Kurdish base?
NO, these aren't the troops that'd cross into #Iran even if Kurds went to war
& Azhy isn't the intelligence boss of #Kurdistan!

[Wladimir van Wilgenburg @vvanwilgenburg]

Kurdish @MHJournalist catches Iranian kamikaze drone attack on camera in Slemani

[Jake Hanrahan @Jake_Hanrahan]

Describing “the Kurds” as a monolith is terrible. They are the largest ethnic group without a fully sovereign country on earth. You cannot simply describe them as “the Kurds”. PJAK, for example, has already said they won’t be fighting any proxy war for Israel / US. CNN is trash.

[Scharo Bajalan @ScharoBajalan]

Last I checked - Clarissa Ward was the journalist who staged the liberation of the Sednaya prison in Syria.

One of the biggest scandals of the CNN in recent history; tremendous backlash and damage to the reputation.

[haroun esmail @HarounEsmail]

@ChanceGlasco Hi Chance, please could you Dm me.

[Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed @Shanazibrahim_a]

Leave The Kurds Alone,
We Are Not Guns For Hire.

[Scharo Bajalan @ScharoBajalan]

As of now - 22:15 CET - there are no reports about ground movements by Kurdish parties inside Rojhelat or en route to Rojhelat.

My sources explicitly stated that such reports are not accurate nor based on observable information.