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Daughter of Robert Pether, jailed and feared tortured in Iraq, asks Scott Morrison to intervene in his case

Nala, 9, takes to social media to call on the Australian government to give more help to her father, who has been locked up in a Baghdad prison for more than a year.

ABC News

Yazidis, displaced again, fear more strife in Iraqi homeland

Internally displaced minority Yazidis say they are reluctant to return to their ancestral homeland in northern Iraq

The Independent UK

Russia and the U.S.: Dance of death

Doddering Cold War adversaries are marching toward war: For their decrepit elites, it's literally the last hurrah

Salon

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‘If you don’t have a witness, you don’t have a crime’ says French photojournalist Patrick Chauvel

French photojournalist and war photographer Patrick Chauvel has covered over thirty conflicts, from Vietnam to Bosnia and Iraq – and now Ukraine. He explains how his early appetite for adventure soon evolved into an impulse that would go on to shape his life profoundly: a desire to tell the stories…

France 24

Thousands Flee after Clashes Erupt in Embattled Iraqi Town

Thousands or people fled a northern Iraqi town amid fierce clashes between the army and an armed faction linked to a Kurdish separatist group, the military and local Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday. At least 3,000 people left Sinjar and its surrounding areas, the officials said, and headed farther north…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Satellite-tracking Islamic State’s archaeological destruction

ISIS deliberately destroyed cultural heritage during its occupation of northern Iraq. Satellite and drone images revealed the damage as it unfolded.

360info

Years after IS defeat, northern Iraq struggles to rebuild

Habash (Iraq) (AFP) - In Iraq, "maku" means "nothing", and father-of-five Issa al-Zamzoum says "maku" a lot: no electricity, no home, no rebuilding and no job.

AFP

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Estimated 3,000 people flee armed clashes in northern Iraq

Clashes first erupted on Sunday when the Iraqi military launched an operation to clear the area of YBS forces.

Al Jazeera

Mundher Al-Adhami obituary

Other lives: Iraqi-born political activist and pioneer in maths education who supported teachers in challenging children to think

The Guardian - UK

Jim Fitton: Family feel ‘completely abandoned’ by Foreign Office as Briton faces death penalty in Iraq

Son-in-law says 66-year-old is ‘certainly putting on a brave face and stiff upper lip for us’

The Independent UK

After the War

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for Europe to step up and America to step back.

Reason

Murals Bring 'Joy' to Baghdad Concrete Jungle

Iraqi artist Wijdan al-Majed is transforming Baghdad's concrete jungle into a color-filled city with murals depicting well-known figures from the war-scarred country and abroad. Perched on a scaffold at a busy intersection, the 49-year-old artist and instructor at the Baghdad College of Fine Arts is adding final touches to a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Missile Attack Causes Tank Fire in Oil Refinery in Iraq’s Erbil

A missile attack targeted an oil refinery in Iraq's northern city of Erbil on Sunday causing a fire in one of its main tanks that was later brought under control, the Iraqi security forces said in a statement. A missile also landed in the outer fence of the refinery without…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Murals bring 'joy' to Baghdad concrete jungle

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqi artist Wijdan al-Majed is transforming Baghdad's concrete jungle into a colour-filled city with murals depicting well-known figures from the war-scarred country and abroad.

AFP

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Reuters

Six missiles land near oil refinery in Iraq's Erbil - statement

Six missiles landed near an oil refinery in Iraq's northern city of Erbil on Sunday, Kurdistan anti-terrorism authorities said in a statement.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq Yet Again Hit by Increasingly Frequent Dust Storms

Iraq on Sunday was yet again covered in a thick sheet of orange as it suffered the latest in a series of dust storms that have become increasingly common. Flights were grounded due to poor visibility at airports serving the capital Baghdad and the city of Najaf, with the phenomenon…

AFP

Iraq yet again hit by dust storm

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq on Sunday was yet again covered in a thick sheet of orange as it suffered the latest in a series of dust storms that have become increasingly common.

AFP

Iraq yet again hit by increasingly frequent dust storms

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq on Sunday was yet again covered in a thick sheet of orange as it suffered the latest in a series of dust storms that have become increasingly common.

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Evening Standard

Jim Fitton: Thousands support efforts to free British geologist amid Iraq death penalty fears

A petition urging the release of father-of-two Jim Fitton has received more than 92,000 signatures in the three days since it was launched

Asharq Al-Awsat

A Poem to Arab Beauty: The Fashion Designs of Hana Sadiq

With verses from love poems and flowing calligraphy, Jordan-based fashion designer Hana Sadiq stitches a testament to the beauty of Arab women. In a career spanning decades, Iraqi-born Sadiq has shown her creations worldwide and dressed the stars, but she remains rooted in the traditions of her homeland. The artistic…

Al Jazeera

Iraqi police seize more than 6 million Captagon amphetamine pills

Syria is the Middle East’s main producer of the drug Captagon and Saudi Arabia is the main consumer market.

AFP

19th century Iraq church celebrates first mass since IS defeat

Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) - Dozens of faithful celebrated mass Saturday at a Mosul church in northern Iraq for the first time since it was restored after its ransacking by Islamic State jihadists.

The Guardian - UK

Family of British geologist facing death penalty in Iraq urge UK to intervene

Retiree Jim Fitton, 66, was detained when airport security found ‘valueless’ pottery shards in luggage

AFP

Iran-Saudi tensions near end, Iraq PM says

Baghdad (AFP) - An end to years of tension between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia is near, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi said in an interview published on Saturday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran's Ambassador to Baghdad Discusses Roadmap for Iranian-Saudi Talks

Iran's outgoing ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi discussed at the end of his term the latest stages of the talks between his country and Saudi Arabia. For a year and a half, Baghdad has hosted five rounds of talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran shortly after the outgoing prime minister,…

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