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US strikes on Iraq and Syria ‘principally focused on militant groups’ says US military expert
We spoke to General Joseph L. Votel, a retired US Army officer who was most recently Commander of US Central Command, and responsible for US and coalition military operations in the Middle East. We asked for his assessment of the scale and scope of the airstrikes.
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US strikes on 85 Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria kill 16 people, says Iraqi government
Iraq has warned of disastrous consequences for the region, after the US launched air strikes on 85 targets used by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. It said 16 people were killed in Iraq, some of them civilians. The strikes were in retaliation for a drone attack which killed three US troops last Sunday. And…
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‘It’s not easy to talk about honour killings in Iraq,’ says adviser to Iraq’s Prime Minister
We spoke to Ala Talabani, who’s an advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister on Women’s Affairs in Baghdad, and began by asking how people in Iraq have responded to the young woman’s killing.
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Iraqi Youtuber killed by father in ‘honour killing’
The death of a young Iraqi Youtube star at the hands of her father has sparked outrage across the country over the practice known as ‘honour killing’. 22-year-old Tiba al-Ali had been living in Turkey, where she posted regular videos about her daily life with her fiance. She was killed after returning to Iraq to…
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‘There is no future’ Iraq’s rivers are drying up
As countries from around the world debate how to tackle climate change at the COP27 talks in Egypt – it’s countries like Iraq which are on the frontline.
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Lawand Amin: deaf boy’s journey from Iraq to the UK told in new documentary
For Lawand Amin, a deaf Iraqi boy, who fled to this country with his parents, Britain isn’t just a country of refuge – it’s the place where he has learned to communicate for the first time.
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Protesters storm Iraq parliament for second time in week
Iraq’s parliament has been occupied by thousands of followers of an influential cleric, seeking to block efforts by rival groups to form a government.
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Iraq: Protesters storm Baghdad parliament
In Baghdad, supporters of the populist Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have stormed the parliament building, in protest at the failure to form a government after Iraqi elections last October.
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Russian actions in Ukraine are no worse than America in Iraq, Moscow academic says
We spoke to Dmitry Suslov, an international relations specialist from Russia’s Higher School of Economics.
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English Channel deaths: Why Iraqi Kurds are making the dangerous journey to Europe
Those seeking a new life by crossing the channel are from parts of the world devastated by years of conflict, particularly prominent are those fleeing Iraq’s northern region of Kurdistan.
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Did UK government know about Iraqi invasion of Kuwait before BA plane landed there?
In the summer of 1990, more than 350 passengers boarded flight BA149 at Heathrow. The plane was bound for Kuala Lumpur, but never made it that far. Instead it made a refuelling stopover in Kuwait City, just as Iraqi troops invaded in the first Gulf War. The passengers were held for months as “human shields”…
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US combat mission in Iraq to cease by end of year
President Biden is to pledge that the United States will end its military combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, as he meets the Iraqi prime minister at the White House.
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Deadly hospital fire caused by oxygen tank explosion on Covid-ward in Iraq
In Iraq, at least 92 people have lost their lives in a devastating fire at a hospital ward treating coronavirus patients.
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Senior British catholic calls Pope visit to Iraq ‘vivid expression of solidarity’
We were joined by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who’s the Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and Archbishop of Westminster.
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Pope leads prayers at churches destroyed by ISIS in Iraq
The Pope has called on people of all faiths in Iraq to forgive the injustices against them and to rebuild as he visited the ruins of churches in the city of Mosul – a former stronghold of the militant Islamic State group. His Holiness led prayers at the broken churches before celebrating mass at a…
