Life inside Iraq's 'Forbidden Zone' controlled by Turkey

found 2025 › Apr › 30 (Wed) @ 00:35 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.

Warfare review – nerve-shredding real-time Iraq war film drags you into visceral frontline combat

found 2025 › Apr › 20 (Sun) @ 07:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Co-directors Alex Garland and former US Navy Seal Ray Mendoza recreate a 2006 battle with almost unbearable intensity – and a dazzling ensemble cast

It’s up there with the first 23 bruising minutes of…

Weather tracker: sandstorm turns Iraqi skies orange and empties the streets

found 2025 › Apr › 18 (Fri) @ 09:35 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Thousands go to hospital with respiratory problems after massive dust cloud blows in from Saudi Arabia

Iraq was hit by its most severe sandstorm of 2025 this week, turning skies from blue to an orange…

Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

found 2025 › Apr › 18 (Fri) @ 07:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it

Samantha Ellis yearns to eat the nabug fruit that her Iraqi-Jewish parents recall …

Boot camp, matching tattoos and mutual head-shaving: Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Michael Gandolfini on making Warfare

found 2025 › Apr › 18 (Fri) @ 05:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film recounts the ordeal of US troops trapped in Iraq. Here, ex-Navy Seal Mendoza, who was one of the soldiers, discusses how the movie was made with his troupe of acto…

BRIAN VINER reviews Warfare: Brutal but brilliant, Alex Garland's film tells a terrifying battle story in real time

found 2025 › Apr › 18 (Fri) @ 00:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Alex Garland's Warfare, unfolding in real time, tells the story of what happened after a team of US Navy SEALs on a reconnaissance mission occupied a house in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.

The battle that set the standard for modern warfare: Battle Board breaks down the 100 hours that began Saddam Hussein's downfall... Operation Desert Storm

found 2025 › Apr › 11 (Fri) @ 20:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

This is the story of one of the most decisive victories in military history - as the United States and her allies crushed the army of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in just 100 hours on 24 February, 1…

‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?

found 2025 › Apr › 05 (Sat) @ 09:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi …

The brutal criminal kingpins who rule Britain's cross-Channel migrant routes with an iron fist: Iraqi Kurds seize control from Albanians and Iranians to make millions

found 2025 › Apr › 01 (Tue) @ 01:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

EXCLUSIVE: While Albanians are still actively involved in smuggling, they are described as working as 'clients and middlemen' for the Iraqi Kurds.

Astonishing tale of controversial lawyer who says he's advised Donald Trump and Russia, has claimed Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe as clients ... and still has designs on owning a football team despite doing time in prison

found 2025 › Mar › 28 (Fri) @ 06:07 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. What links Dundee with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, paedophile pop singer Gary Glitter, and serial killer doctor Harold Shipman?