Radio stations from Iraq

This page lists 12 internet radio stations broadcasting from Iraq. The most listened to are SumerFm Iraq, Darusalam Radio, Al-bilad Radio/Yaqoubi and Kurdistan 24. Each station was checked for a working stream, so nothing here is a dead link.

By genre the strongest here are iraq (4), iraq radio (2), islamic (2), baghdad (2), islam (2) and arabic (2). Broadcasts are mainly in arabic (6), kurdish. (1) and kurdish (1). Stations are spread across the country, with the most coming from Baghdad and KARBALA.

Sound quality varies: 0 stations stream at 192 kbps or higher, while 1 run at 96 kbps or below and are better suited to a phone on mobile data. By format the mix is MP3 (12). MP3 is the safe universal choice, while AAC sounds better for the same bandwidth.

Nothing needs to be installed to listen to radio from Iraq: the player runs in the browser, on a phone the same as on a computer. Stations you like can be kept with the heart icon — they are stored in your own browser, so they are waiting the next time you open the site, with no account and nothing sent anywhere. The track currently playing is shown at the bottom of the screen for stations that broadcast that information.

Listening to stations from Iraq online means hearing what people there actually hear — the same news bulletins, the same adverts, the same songs in rotation — which no streaming service reproduces.