The Atlantic

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After admitting his ISIS policy wasn’t “complete” earlier this week, President Obama today authorized deployment of 450 advisers to train troops in Iraq. Shifting targets: Just weeks ago, there were hopes that after retaking Saddam Hussein’s hometown

The Christian Science Monitor

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By the thousands, young Iraqis have created a “ministate” in downtown Baghdad that resembles the government they want – one not based on dividing up power by faith.

NPR

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A government review says most of the dead were killed by gunshot wounds to the head or chest. Over 3,000 people were wounded.

TIME

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IN MOSUL, ISIS HAS LOST MORE than a city. Defeat there marks a reversal of the victory that first put ISIS on the map in June 2014. While the Syrian city of Raqqa is its capital, Mosul was where it declared the state that’s now in full retreat, and t

NPR

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Parliamentary elections this weekend will be the most complicated in Iraq's post-war history. Many people say they won't vote. "I voted three times, but nothing changed," says an unemployed man.

NPR

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Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi's appointment comes at a tense time as the country has been riven by anti-government protests and a deadly crackdown by security forces.

New Zealand Listener

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Former Australian journalist Gina Wilkinson takes the reader to a particularly fraught time in history, Baghdad in 2002, when Saddam Hussein was the dictator of Iraq and Western sanctions had cut off the country and its people from the rest of the wo

NPR

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After a three-and-a-half year fight, Haider al-Abadi announced Saturday Iraqi forces had retaken the group's final stronghold along the Syrian border.

TIME

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IT WAS THE LAST THURSDAY IN SEPTEMBER when 22-year-old social-media icon Tara Fares was gunned down in Baghdad. It was a Thursday in August when a well-known beautician was found dead in her home, and the Thursday before that when a plastic surgeon n

TIME

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WHEN ISIS RETREATED FROM THE BROKEN PLAINS south of Mosul last August, its militants did what defeated armies do in these parts: they scorched the earth. Saddam Hussein’s soldiers set alight some 700 oil wells on their way out of Kuwait in 1991, and

Retro Gamer

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APRIL 2003 – This month may only bring a trickle of interesting games, but you’ll find showers of important news stories wherever you turn. Nick Thorpe ditches the umbrella and soaks up that moist, juicy gossip… The war in Iraq raged on this month, w

The Christian Science Monitor

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Months of demonstrations have challenged the regime and set a template for redefining community among Iraqis.

Los Angeles Times

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BAGHDAD - Muqtada al-Sadr, the populist Iraqi cleric, has been many things: militia leader, America basher, corruption fighter. Now he may have a new role: kingmaker. The alliance he leads appeared headed toward a victory in Iraq's sweeping parliamen

Retro Gamer

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DECEMBER 2003 – Could we be seeing the best Christmas of the generation? A packed release schedule would suggest so, with absolute belters being flung around left, right and centre. Nick Thorpe reinforces his time machine and steels himself for a bar

NPR

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Mustafa al-Kadhimi was the third candidate whom Iraq's president had asked to try to form a government. Parliament approved the majority of Kadhimi's Cabinet early Thursday morning.

Global Voices

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The bill prescribes lengthy prisons sentences, including life imprisonment, for speech-related offences.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Candidates in Iraq's elections Saturday, aware of the perils of sectarianism, are focusing on bread-and-butter issues. But that doesn't mean they've earned voters' trust. There are still lessons to be learned about democracy: Voting drives legitimacy

The Christian Science Monitor

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In Iraq and Colombia, demonstrators expected more of a “peace dividend” after the end to recent wars. They know peace is more than an absence of conflict.

Los Angeles Times

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BAGHDAD - Iraqis went to the polls on Saturday to vote in pivotal elections set to determine the country's post-Islamic State future after a difficult four-year war to defeat the jihadist group. Few surprises were expected in the battle for 329 parli

The Atlantic

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In December, Haider al-Abadi declared victory over ISIS. But with Iranian militias still to contend with and tensions with the Kurds high, challenges to peace remain.

The Atlantic

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“You can say that almost all of Iraq has been liberated from ISIS during the day, but you can’t say that at night.”

The Christian Science Monitor

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A vote in Iraq’s Parliament and a general’s draft letter suggest U.S. forces could soon leave. Neither party would benefit, say analysts, just Iran.

Los Angeles Times

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BAGHDAD - In 2014, as Islamic State militants were seizing large chunks of Iraqi territory and advancing toward Baghdad, hundreds of thousands of volunteers rose to the capital's defense. They joined the Shiite-dominated militias known in Arabic as t

The Atlantic

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Last week, Moscow said it may have killed the terrorist leader. The U.S. and Iraq are skeptical.

NPR

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"These women and children are extremely vulnerable. Regardless of what their family members may be accused of, they have a right to protection and assistance," says the Norwegian Refugee Council.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Deutsche Welle / Bonn, GermanyThe US and its allies knocked Russia off balance “It was anything but dull in the Security Council on [April 9], when Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya faced off with his US and UK counterparts, Nikki Haley and Karen

NPR

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Iraq's Kurdish region has overwhelmingly voted in favor of independence. Now the Iraqi government says it will block international flights to and from the region's airports in retaliation.

NPR

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A massive fire at a hospital dedicated to COVID-19 patients also left more than 100 people injured. Amid calls for action by international organizations, the prime minister ordered an investigation.

NPR

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Two weeks after parliamentary elections delivered a surprise win for allies of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's divided political leaders are scrambling to put together a coalition government.

Global Voices

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"Parliament’s satisfaction with Adilah Hamoud’s answers means the government believes that poor healthcare is what the people deserve from the corrupt minister."