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21 days ago

Weather tracker: sandstorm turns Iraqi skies orange and empties the streets

Thousands go to hospital with respiratory problems after massive dust cloud blows in from Saudi Arabia

Iraq was hit by its most severe sandstorm of 2025 this week, turning skies from blue to an orange…

Boot camp, matching tattoos and mutual head-shaving: Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Michael Gandolfini on making Warfare

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film recounts the ordeal of US troops trapped in Iraq. Here, ex-Navy Seal Mendoza, who was one of the soldiers, discusses how the movie was made with his troupe of acto…

24 days ago

Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made?

In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s brutal and immersive new film, memory informs the events that take place in real time to a unit of soldiers in Iraq

Warfare, Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s assiduous …

25 days ago

It is difficult to imagine a post-American world. But imagine it we must | Nesrine Malik

The truth is, we were always dangerously overexposed to decisions made in Washington – consider this chaotic moment an opportunity

“People speak with forked tongues about America,” a veteran foreign c…

27 days ago

‘I had a recurring dream that Bin Laden was in my kitchen’: Ramy Youssef on his 9/11 comedy

The standup’s new animated series #1 Happy Family USA mixes South Park-style humour with a bracing account of Muslim life in America in the wake of the September 11 attacks. It feels like history is …

32 days ago

Executions at 10-year high after huge increases in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia

Amnesty International confirms 1,518 people executed in 2024 but says real total is likely to be thousands more

More people were executed in 2024 than in any other year over the past decade, mainly re…

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