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Iraqi asylum seeker wins right to stay in UK after claiming he couldn't go back to home country because his tattoos 'deviated from principles of Islam'

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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber heard that the Kurdish Man, granted anonymity, fled Iraq after his father and uncle even tried to burn the tattoos off his skin.

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Nine-year-old girls raped, beaten and forced to 'legally' marry old men. Teenagers attacked by their own fathers and brothers in 'honour' killings before being thrown in secret  graves. This is the horrific truth of life in Iraq

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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

As I write this, my two young granddaughters are playing on the floor of my small home. Aged four and six, they tussle over their dolls, turning to me to ask who should get the one that is prettiest.

12 days ago

Why this is the most brutally realistic war film ever made, writes RICHARD PENDLEBURY, who's reported on conflicts around the world for 25 years - and says the story of a unit under fire in Iraq has haunting lessons for Ukraine today

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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

My first experience of being under direct fire happened while I was lying in an alpine meadow near Batusha, Kosovo, on a glorious spring morning in 1999.

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Videotape sculptures and wartime paintings among Turner prize shortlist

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a story from The Guardian › International

Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Rene Matić and Zadie Xa have been nominated for £25,000 prize

An artist who creates swirling sculptures out of fabric and old videocassette tape, and another who installed h…

18 days ago

What’s missing from Alex Garland’s Iraq movie Warfare? Context, motivation and, for the most part, Iraqis | Peter Beaumont

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a story from The Guardian › International

I was there with US soldiers in 2006 and can see why the film-makers zoomed in on them so closely. But it results in glaring flaws

Think back to 2006. Iraq was at the peak of its conflicts. A horrific…

19 days ago

Warfare review – nerve-shredding real-time Iraq war film drags you into visceral frontline combat

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a story from The Guardian › International

Co-directors Alex Garland and former US Navy Seal Ray Mendoza recreate a 2006 battle with almost unbearable intensity – and a dazzling ensemble cast

It’s up there with the first 23 bruising minutes of…

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