Iraq
Ninth sandstorm in less than two months shuts down much of Iraq
Public sector ordered to close except for health and security services, while airports suspend flights
Staff and agencies
24, May, 2022 @2:19 AM
Margaret Beckett is still wrong about the Iraq war and WMD claims | Letter
Letter: Frank Jackson on the former Labour deputy leader’s recollections about the 2003 Iraq war
Letters
22, May, 2022 @4:32 PM
George W Bush accidentally admits Iraq war was ‘unjustified and brutal’ in gaffe
Former president makes slip when speaking at his presidential library in Dallas on Wednesday
Julian Borger in Washington
19, May, 2022 @3:30 PM
How the US is failing female veterans suffering illness from toxic burn pits
A bill to expand coverage for vets affected by toxic exposure doesn’t cover some of the illnesses that women get
Olivia Empson
17, May, 2022 @6:00 AM
Ministers accused of abandoning UK geologist at risk of execution in Iraq
Family ‘baffled’ by Foreign Office after Jim Fitton arrested for taking pottery pieces from ancient site
Steven Morris
05, May, 2022 @5:23 PM
Family of British geologist facing death penalty in Iraq urge UK to intervene
Retiree Jim Fitton, 66, was detained when airport security found ‘valueless’ pottery shards in luggage
Tom Ambrose
30, Apr, 2022 @12:04 PM
Iraq’s ancient buildings are being destroyed by climate change
Water shortages leading to rising salt concentrations and sandstorms are eroding world’s ancient sites
Hannah Lynch
15, Apr, 2022 @11:44 AM
Russia ‘using weapons smuggled by Iran from Iraq against Ukraine’
Iraqi militias and others say undercover networks being used to supply materiel such as RPGs and anti-tank missiles
Bethan McKernan in Kyiv and Vera Mironova in Lviv
12, Apr, 2022 @3:30 AM
Iraqi man alleging 35 family members were killed by Australian airstrike denied compensation
Man applied to Australian government for act of grace payment over Mosul strike targeting Islamic State in 2017
Nino Bucci
10, Apr, 2022 @5:30 PM
‘Enforced disappearance’: Iraq’s jailing of Australian Robert Pether is arbitrary detention, UN finds
Pether and colleague Khalid Radwan sentenced to five years’ prison after business dispute with Central Bank of Iraq
Christopher Knaus
29, Mar, 2022 @3:19 AM
‘I lived with the sound of bullets’ – the hallucinatory paintings of Iraqi exile Mohammed Sami
As a schoolboy, he painted propaganda murals for Saddam Hussein’s regime. Now, as the rising star prepares for his first solo UK show, he reveals what triggers his powerful work
Elizabeth Fullerton
21, Mar, 2022 @4:07 PM
Europa review – border-crossing refugee’s story plays out as intense chase thriller
Although Haider Rashid’s drama tells us frustratingly little about its Iraqi protagonist, this expertly-made film demands to be seen
Leslie Felperin
15, Mar, 2022 @9:00 AM
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