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War in Gaza caused big political shifts, and more are likely on the road to peace
ByJason Burke October 19, 2025

Trump’s 20-point plan is forcing Middle East rivals to set aside differences and collaborate after years of competitionMiddle East crisis – live updatesIf the war in Gaza had dramatic consequences across the Middle East, overturning long-held assumptio…

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Egypt expected to lead global stabilisation force in Gaza, say diplomats
ByPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor October 18, 2025

Decommissioning Hamas weapons seen as major stumbling block, with British diplomats advising on processA European and US-backed UN security council motion to give a planned international stabilisation force robust powers to control security inside Gaza…

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The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul
ByJosh Paul September 30, 2025

Jared Kushner and Tony Blair’s neocolonial venture would be an incompatible transplant that would be rejected by the bodyOn my first day in Baghdad, after the mortar fire had subsided, I made my way to my office in the Republican Palace and set about t…

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The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul
ByJosh Paul September 30, 2025

Jared Kushner and Tony Blair’s neocolonial venture would be an incompatible transplant that would be rejected by the bodyOn my first day in Baghdad, after the mortar fire had subsided, I made my way to my office in the Republican Palace and set about t…

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When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate
ByShams Ali* September 25, 2025

A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like meI was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was a…

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When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate
ByShams Ali* September 25, 2025

A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like meI was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was a…

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Elizabeth Tsurkov, Princeton Student, Is Released From Iraq, Trump Says
ByRonen Bergman, Patrick Kingsley and Aaron Boxerman September 9, 2025

Israel and Iraq confirmed the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student at Princeton who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 by the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.

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Israeli-Russian graduate student freed after 903 days in Hezbollah captivity
ByGuardian staff September 9, 2025

Elizabeth Tsurkov, who entered Iraq to do research for Princeton, had gone missing in Iraq in early 2023Israeli-Russian academic and Princeton student Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released after being kidnapped by Kata’ib Hezbollah and spending more than…

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Israeli-Russian graduate student freed after 903 days in captivity of Iraqi militant group
ByGuardian staff September 9, 2025

Elizabeth Tsurkov, who entered Iraq to do research for Princeton, had gone missing there in early 2023Israeli-Russian academic and Princeton student Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released after being kidnapped by an Iraqi Shia militia group and spending m…

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From the streets of Baghdad, I saw a clear line to the bloodshed in Gaza | Owen Jones
ByOwen Jones August 26, 2025

The west faced no reckoning for the death and destruction it wreaked in Iraq. That made the war crimes we’re now witnessing inevitable “You destroyed Iraq.” I had to wait for my companion, the Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, to translate these word…

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