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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…

Read More 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
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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…

Read More Israeli-Russian graduate student freed after 903 days in captivity of Iraqi militant group
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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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Iran Extends Government Shutdowns Amid Soaring Heat and Power Cuts
BySanam Mahoozi and Erika Solomon August 22, 2025

Amid suffocating temperatures, the Iranian authorities are closing public offices and cutting water and electricity as the country struggles with an energy crisis.

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Iran Extends Government Shutdowns Amid Soaring Heat and Power Cuts
BySanam Mahoozi and Erika Solomon August 22, 2025August 22, 2025

Amid suffocating temperatures, the Iranian authorities are closing public offices and cutting water and electricity as the country struggles with an energy crisis.

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Iraq’s marshes were considered an Eden. Now the oil industry is sucking them dry
ByAzhar Al-Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala in Hawizeh Marshes August 13, 2025

Hawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the waterAt dawn, a veil of mist clings to the canals of Hawizeh, where sky and water seem to blur into…

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Britain told US that invading Iraq could cost Blair his premiership, papers reveal
ByCaroline Davies and Ben Quinn July 21, 2025

Adviser to former PM said Bush’s pursuit of regime change in Baghdad could also cause ‘regime change in London’The stark terms in which the US was warned that invading Iraq without a second UN security council resolution could cost Tony Blair his premi…

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