Al Jazeera posts video clips and programs on YouTube. Watching these helps with learning vocabulary, pronunciation, and improving listening comprehension. This video is from last spring, about the Mahdi Army in Iraq. The word for “army” is جيس (jeish).
Searching YouTube for something to watch and listen to relating to the last post about government ministries, I found this: حريق في فندق الرشيد قرب وزارة الخارجي
A fire at the Al-Rashid Hotel near the Foreign Ministry. حريق (hareeq) is the word for “fire”. فندق (funduk) means “hotel”. وزارة الخارجي (wizara al kharija) means “foreign ministry”.
This is a hotel in Baghdad, located in the Green Zone. I’m not entirely sure of the date for when this happened, but found news articles that talk about it (I think). Baghdad hotel hit by rocket attack - BBC News
The video:
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