Violent storms lash northern Iraq and parts of Iran, while Portugal faces strong winds and Japan braces for further snowfall Deadly flash floods hit northern Iraq on Saturday as severe thunderstorms swept across the region, including in neighbouring Iran.
Adult excavated in an Iraqi Kurdistan cave died more than 70,000 years ago and bears ‘kill shot’ shoulder wound A smooth round hole in the shoulder blade of a Neanderthal who died more than 70,000 years ago may be the oldest evidence so far of a human ancestor being killed by a wooden spear.
Government insiders say the new PM is unleashing an ‘earthquake’ to clean up the system. But Iraqis have heard it all before The gates of the Green Zone in Baghdad are made of five-metre-high armoured steel, reinforced with horizontal girders, and strung between concrete pillars and anti-blast walls…
The al-Qaida leader envisaged an economically battered US withdrawing from the Middle East – and a global Muslim uprising. Then the tide turned On 11 September, 25 years ago, Osama bin Laden drove with a small number of al-Qaida retainers and aides to a remote location in eastern Afghanistan.
My mother, Samira al-Mana, who has died aged 91, was an Iraqi who moved to the UK when she was 30 and subsequently wrote five novels, two collections of short stories and a play. Her work, which was written in Arabic, focused on the difficult choices faced by everyday citizens living within authorit…
Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible The first thing that strikes visitors arriving in Faka, a small village in al-Ayadiya district, northern Iraq, is the silence.
With the outbreak of this year’s war, Iraq’s balancing act between the two antagonists has collapsed, exposing a perilously fragile state By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Read by Mo Ayoub The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now.
The president has blundered into a ‘forever war’ with Iran he can’t win, but refuses to end. Such hubris has a long history It’s five years this month since the chaotic retreat of US forces from Kabul.
Trump’s conflict keeps escalating, with Saudi Arabia joining airstrikes in Iraq and reportedly planning an attack on the Houthis. A recession could follow The US war against Iran is spiraling out of control.
This blog is now closed – our live coverage of the Middle East continues here A liquefied natural gas tanker controlled by QatarEnergy exited the strait of Hormuz overnight – the first such vessel visible on ship-tracking data to leave the waterway since 11 July, data from analytics firms showed…
Yemeni sources say Saudis concentrating forces for what could be attack in central Yemen Saudi Arabia is preparing for a major military offensive against the Houthis by sea and possibly by land in central Yemen, Yemeni sources believe, in a move to break the chokehold on its oil exports through the…
The US military has carried out a wave of airstrikes against Iran in response to Tehran targeting American bases in Jordan. The strikes were launched after Donald Trump vowed to hit Iran ‘very hard’ following a days-long pause in fighting.
Central Command says strikes aimed at diminishing Iranian military while mediators say talks are continuing The US struck Iran overnight and Tehran retaliated at US allies in the region, reigniting the low-intensity, tit-for-tat war as mediators struggled to pull the two countries back to the negoti…
Riyadh’s decision to join US in strikes on Iran-backed militia further complicates widening and ‘unpredictable’ war US-Saudi strikes on Iran-backed militia in Iraq have pushed the region into “uncharted territory”, analysts have warned.
With the outbreak of this year’s war, Iraq’s balancing act between the two antagonists has collapsed, exposing a perilously fragile state • The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now.
‘Manal suffered severe burns to her arms and face after a missile explosion in Iraq. Yet in many ways she seemed just like a regular young girl’ When I started to take photographs about 18 years ago, I was more interested in the aesthetics.
Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton died during controlled detonation, bringing total of US personnel killed in war to 17 The US military has identified an army soldier killed recently during a “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone in Iraq as Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton, of Fayetteville, North…
Powerful animation portrays experiences of a French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani, with anecdotes about his father, a prominent leftist exile With a title translated a little inelegantly from Le Parfum d’Irak to “flavours of Iraq” when “the perfume of Iraq” might have been simpler and better, this f…
