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Iraq

July 2024

  • A photo believed to be of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon in 2014

    Widow of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi given death sentence by Iraqi court

  • A photo of various crew members sitting on the floor of a room in a hotel

    ‘As complicit as Saddam’: people on BA flight held hostage in Kuwait sue UK government

June 2024

  • An old woman in a headscarf sits in a tent holding a photograph of a ruined house

    Yazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close camps

  • Bashar Harbi Darwish and family at their jewelry store in Warren, Michigan.

    Iraqi Mandaeans thrive after being uprooted from Middle East to midwest

May 2024

  • FILE - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi listens to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not in photo, during a joint news conference following their meeting at the Presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 24, 2024. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and others were found dead at the site of a helicopter crash site, state media reported Monday, May 20, 2024. (Mert Gokhan Koc/Dia Images via AP, File)

    Ebrahim Raisi obituary

    Ruthless prosecutor linked to thousands of executions who rose through the theocratic ranks to become the president of Iran
  • An audience listen to a sound archive by Ateef al-Jaffal during the 2023 festival.

    Notebook
    Doing the Baghdad walk: art tour highlights creativity in the heart of Iraq

    Annual tour shows war-torn capital is still alive with invention and reflection

    • Middle East crisis live
      Middle East crisis: Rafah operation could result in ‘slaughter’, UN official says – as it happened

    • Mistrial in case of US military contractor accused of Abu Ghraib abuse

    • Father of girl who died in Channel says family feared being deported to Iraq

April 2024

  • Shia Muslim devotees self-flagellate over an unfurled banner on the ground depicting the Pride rainbow flag defaced with a boot in the city of Nasiriyah in Iraq in 2023.

    Human rights groups and diplomats condemn Iraq’s anti-LGBTQ+ law

  • An Iraqi jail

    Iraq makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail

  • Om Fahed appears to be dancing holding a flag over her head

    Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home

  • Mourners react as people rebury the bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive in Khan Younis.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: More than 200 bodies recovered from temporary mass graves in Nasser hospital, local authorities say – as it happened

  • Iraq militant group says it is resuming attacks on US forces as base in Syria is targeted

  • Explosion hits base of Iranian-aligned Iraqi army unit

  • Bob Graham, former US senator and Florida governor who opposed Iraq war, dies at 87

  • ‘Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

March 2024

  • An armed soldier sits next to a TV. Rawa, Iraq, 2006

    ‘I was always an uncertain and confused observer’: war photographer Peter van Agtmael on decades on the frontline

    The American photojournalist on his new book, which brings together the US’s foreign wars and its divisions​ at home, with often disturbing results
  • Then prime minister John Howard meets Australian troops in Iraq in 2005

    Cabinet papers from Iraq war period show Howard government saw access to Middle East oil as a key national interest

    Newly released documents also reveal worries that reducing troop levels in Iraq would squander ‘the benefits’ to US-Australia alliance
  • Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad, subject of the documentary Mediha

    ‘Nobody would listen to me, so I told the camera’: film of Islamic State survivor’s story premieres in UK

    Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad was 10 years old when Islamic State fighters raided her Yazidi village and sold her into sexual slavery. The gift of a film camera ‘saved her life’ and led to an award-winning documentary
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