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Iraqis face difficult return from Syria camp for IS families

Iraqis face difficult return from Syria camp for IS families

After years in a Syrian detention camp, Ibrahim Darwish was relieved to be allowed to return home to Iraq, but his joy was quickly punctured by the...

15.07.2025 20

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By Rouba El Husseini

PKK militants want to enter Turkish politics: top commander

PKK militants want to enter Turkish politics: top commander

Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK's joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group's fighters...

12.07.2025 4

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'Leave our marshes alone': Iraqis fear oil drilling would destroy fabled wetlands

Plans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanised villagers and activists determined to save the mythical...

20.05.2025 10

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By Rouba El Husseini

'Where's the gold?': How the Assads sucked Syria dry

From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit gazed down on a city it...

04.03.2025 4

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By Rouba El Husseini

Iraq's famed 'hunchback' of Mosul rebuilt brick by brick

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to rubble under Islamic State...

06.02.2025 20

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By Rouba El Husseini

Syria's military hospital where detainees were tortured, not treated

Former Syrian detainee Mohammed Najib has suffered for years from torture-induced back pain. Yet he dreaded being taken by his jailers to a military...

23.01.2025 3

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UN investigator says possible to find 'enough' proof for Syria prosecutions

The visiting head of a UN investigative body for Syria said Sunday it was possible to find "more than enough" evidence to convict people of crimes...

23.12.2024 3

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By Rouba El Husseini