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Iran’s protesters need our support – not another western-intervention disaster | Owen Jones
ByOwen Jones January 13, 2026

Previous meddling has damaged the region, and once again the the US and Israel don’t have Iranians’ best interests at heartWhat does it take to shake illusions in western intervention? This is not a question designed to deflect from the barbarism being…

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For the First Time, a Former Refugee Will Lead the U.N.’s Refugee Agency
ByFarnaz Fassihi and Nick Cumming-Bruce December 18, 2025

Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.

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Peter Arnett, Pulitzer prize-winner who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, dies aged 91
ByAssociated Press December 18, 2025

Arnett won 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for the Associated PressPeter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war …

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Bondi Beach Shooting Is a Reminder of ISIS’s Power to Inspire Attacks
ByAdam Goldman, Eric Schmitt and Lizzie Dearden December 17, 2025December 18, 2025

ISIS is too weakened to seize territory, experts said, but its ability to churn out propaganda aimed at provoking violence against the West persists.

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‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing
ByHannah Lynch in Iraq December 16, 2025

Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banksAs a leader of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world, Sheikh Nidham Kreidi al-Sabahi must use only water taken from a flowing r…

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‘It went gangbusters’: the play about the Iraq war – told through the eyes of a starving Baghdad zoo tiger
ByArifa Akbar December 8, 2025

As bombs fell on the capital, a Bengal tiger was left all alone – until a US marine shot it. Rajiv Joseph explains why he brought the beast back from the dead for his Pulitzer-nominated dramaA play that dramatises the thoughts of a tiger on the bombed-…

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Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight
ByPeter Bradshaw December 3, 2025

Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combativeRenowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was never played in a film by Robert Re…

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Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight
ByPeter Bradshaw December 3, 2025

Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combativeRenowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was never played in a film by Robert Re…

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Rocket Attack on Iraqi Gas Field Cuts Power to Most of Kurdistan
ByErika Solomon November 27, 2025November 27, 2025

The strike is the latest in a string of attacks on energy infrastructure in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, which some regional authorities have privately blamed on Iran-affiliated militias.

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Iraq’s Prime Minister Leads in Elections but May Struggle to Form a Government
ByErika Solomon and Falih Hassan November 12, 2025November 12, 2025

Mohammed al-Sudani pitches himself as someone who can keep Iranian influence in check, but his vote share may not be big enough to ensure a clear political victory.

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