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'

found 2025 › May › 09 (Fri) @ 17:45 UTC

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.

What Iraq’s legal changes mean for women and girls

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 11:10 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera › Al Jazeera English

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"We are really suffering from a lack of legal framework that adequately protects the rights of women and children."

Life inside Iraq's 'Forbidden Zone' controlled by Turkey

found 2025 › Apr › 30 (Wed) @ 00:35 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.

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

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 16:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

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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.

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

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 00:10 UTC

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.

Blink-182's Mark Hoppus makes bizarre claim that HE helped capture Saddam Hussein

found 2025 › Apr › 26 (Sat) @ 13:40 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Hoppus, 53, recalled an encounter aboard an aircraft carrier in the early 2000s - when the war in Iraq was heating up - where he allegedly provided his insights to an admiral.

Videotape sculptures and wartime paintings among Turner prize shortlist

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 11:10 UTC

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…

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

found 2025 › Apr › 21 (Mon) @ 13:20 UTC

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…

In pictures: Easter celebrated around the world from Greece to Iraq

found 2025 › Apr › 20 (Sun) @ 09:35 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

All Christians, from Orthodox and western churches, are celebrating Easter on the same day this year.

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

found 2025 › Apr › 20 (Sun) @ 07:10 UTC

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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…