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The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

US and Iran-backed groups trade fire in Syria. Will it get worse?

Dozens of strikes by Iran-backed groups have targeted US interests in the region as Washington keeps backing Israel.

Al Jazeera

Video purports to show Israeli-Russian researcher kidnapped in Iraq

A video broadcast on an Iraqi television station and circulated on pro-Iranian social media purports to show an Israeli-Russian researcher who was allegedly kidnapped in Iraq

The Independent UK

Russian and US air strikes attack targets in Syria

Russia, Syria accused of using world’s focus on Gaza to escalate attacks in Idlib; US targets Iran-backed groups.

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US carries out two more strikes on Iran-backed groups in Syria

Pentagon says it targeted training facility and a safe house in response to continued attacks on US forces.

Al Jazeera

US conducts airstrikes against Iran-backed groups in Syria, retaliating for attacks on US troops

The Pentagon and U.S. officials say the U.S. military conducted airstrikes on two locations in eastern Syria involving Iranian-backed groups, hitting a training location and a weapons facility

The Independent UK

Analysis: Why Biden is pressuring Israel on Gaza ‘humanitarian pauses’

The US counts Israel as its closest ally in the Middle East. But it needs Arab partners, too.

Al Jazeera

Why Are American Troops Still in Iraq and Syria?

Our troops are just sitting there with targets on their backs. Why?

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U.S. launches airstrike in Syria in response to attacks by Iranian-backed militias

The U.S. carried out an airstrike on a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a number of attacks on U.S. troops in the region.

WEKU

US hits alleged Iran-linked ‘weapons storage’ facility in Syria

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the move was in response to continued attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq.

Al Jazeera

‘Our mother believes Twana is alive somewhere – so I visit different countries looking, just in case’

Brother of Iraqi teenager lost in Channel crossing seeks UK investigation into drownings

The Guardian - UK

US launches airstrike on site in Syria in response to attacks by Iranian-backed militias

The Pentagon says the U.S. has launched an airstrike on a site in eastern Syria

The Independent UK

Bob Woodruff returns to Iraq roadside where bomb nearly killed him 17 years ago

Newsman Bob Woodruff has returned to the Iraqi roadside where a bomb nearly killed him while on assignment for ABC News in 2006

The Independent UK

The Israel-Hamas war again shows that we need to stop thinking there are military solutions to political problems

Just as in Afghanistan and Iraq, using intense force against paramilitaries is not working. Once more it will have disastrous consequences, says academic Paul Rogers

The Guardian - UK

Artes Mundi 10 review – an exotic plunge into broken, borderless worlds

From the marshlands of Iraq to a beach in Bougainville, this Wales-wide art extravaganza feels like a passport to the entire planet

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Human-caused heating behind extreme droughts in Syria, Iraq and Iran, study finds

Millions of people’s lives wrecked by droughts that used to happen once every 250 years but now expected once a decade

The Independent UK

Nasty drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran wouldn't have happened without climate change, study finds

A new study says the three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change

Al Jazeera

Is Israel’s Gaza war the deadliest conflict for children in modern times?

Many more children have been killed in Gaza every day compared with Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, other conflict zones.

Salon

The GOP's anti-war schtick falls flat

Candidates often tell us who they are. We just need to listen

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France 24

Impossible balancing act? Blinken's Middle East tour concludes in Turkey

"We obviously don’t agree on everything." That understatement comes courtesy of the US secretary of state. Now that Antony Blinken's weekend shuttling from Jordan and the West Bank to Iraq and Turkey is over, we can ask: what was it all about?

The Guardian - UK

‘When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide?’ Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries

From the Somme to Afghanistan and Iraq, 500 works capture a century of warfare at the museum’s new Blavatnik art, film and photography galleries. You could spend days in its screening rooms alone, says our writer

Al Jazeera

Blinken makes unannounced Iraq trip amid Israel-Gaza war spillover fears

Top US diplomat’s visit comes after Lebanon accuses Israel of killing four civilians in air raid.

The Guardian - AU

Israel and Hamas at war: what we know on day 31

Over 10,000 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza since 7 October; Israel’s military says it has encircled Gaza City and divided Gaza Strip into two

Salon

We need an extraordinary act of peace

Something almost impossible happened in Iraq in 2004. We need that kind of spiritual energy right now

Radio France Internationale

Kurdistan leader cements decades-old ties in visit to Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday received Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in the north of Iraq – where France still has troops as part of its fight against the Islamic State. Paris has supported Kurdistan since the early 1990s.

Al Jazeera

Spooky Arab tales for Halloween: Iraq’s shape-shifting Tantals

Iraq’s ancient Marshes abound with tales of the Tantal, a trickster that delights in its trickery.

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