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A woman in protective clothing kneels down and searches for explosive ordnance

1 May 2022 4 minute read

This article is more than one year old.

Feel the fear and carry on

In Iraq a growing number of women are now doing the dangerous work of removing landmines – previously a male preserve....

Girls sit at desks in a school classroom

2 Feb 2022 5 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

Iraq: at a glance

For so long subject to ‘the tyranny of strangers’, Zoe Holman explores the ongoing appetite for change in...

Poverty is not unusual in the oil-rich semi-autonomous region. This woman begs in Erbil. Ton Koene/Alamy

29 Jul 2020 6 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

A shot at statehood

Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petrostate of Iraqi Kurdistan.

19 Feb 2019 4 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Ours not to reason why?

When the body bags reach the relatives, the biggest question remains, ‘Why?’ Mari Marcel Thekaekara writes...

19 Feb 2019 4 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Why I protested a British Museum exhibition of my own people’s history

Yasmin Younis explains why she protested against a British Museum exhibition of her own people’s history....

The reverberations of the Kurdish referendum: Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.

30 Sep 2017 5 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

The reverberations of the Kurdish referendum

What’s next after Kurds in Iraq voted for independence? Chalaine Chang reports.

29 Nov 2016 7 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

A turning point for Kurds across the Middle East

Kurds find themselves in the eye of a fast paced and changing storm in the Middle East. Karlos Zurutuza...

3 Nov 2016 5 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

We watch war destroying the environment, but we should be acting instead

The battle of Mosul proves of the catastrophic impact of war on our environment. This UN day on conflict and the environment,...

1 Sep 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

As Donald Trump and Brexit show, progress is not inevitable

Comedian Kate Smurthwaite's monthly magazine column.

1 Sep 2016 4 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Yezidi refugees: stranded sisterhood unites to draw strength through adversity

Thousands of Yezidi women and children remain hostages of Islamic State. Maria Serrano reports.

14 Jul 2016 2 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Jassim – the need to remember

Judith Morrison reflects on a young Iraqi poet whose life was taken.

6 Jul 2016 5 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Chilcot report: looking back on why we went to war with Iraq

If Tony Blair and George W. Bush had listened to Iraqis we would be living in a different world, Nikki van der Gaag...

5 Apr 2016 3 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

Regional conflicts overshadow Iraqi mental health

When looking at the Middle East, all attention is focused on Syria right now, writes Sophia Akram.

15 Jan 2016 2 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

The Jungle: Calais photo gallery

French officials have vowed to bulldoze the Calais migrant camp known as ‘The Jungle’. This gallery presents images from...

5 Jan 2016 6 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

The face behind the PKK story

Every journalist who's visited the PKK's mountain stronghold in recent years knows Zagros Hiwa, reports Karlos...

1 Dec 2015 6 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Islamic State’s plan, and the West’s trap

Paul Rogers looks at lessons not learnt and the dangers of expanding the war against IS.

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