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Iraq

August 2026

  • Samīra al-Māni'

    Other lives
    Samira al-Mana obituary

    Other lives: Exiled Iraqi author whose writing addressed the consequences of authoritarian rule and the pain of separation from one’s homeland
  • A man's head in front of a small heavily damaged settlement in a dry grassy landscape

    Rights and freedom
    Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return

    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 Audio Long Read
      Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US – podcast

      Podcast25:53

    • double quotation markDecades on from the US’s disastrous campaign in Afghanistan, Trump is making all the same mistakes

      Simon Tisdall

    • double quotation markThe US war on Iran is spinning out of control

      Mohamad Bazzi

July 2026

  • Palestinians inspect a site of an Israeli strike on a storage facility in Gaza City this week

    Middle East crisis live
    Iraq says it had ‘no prior knowledge’ of US-Saudi attacks – as it happened

  • Saudi security forces in tactical gear stand on white military vehicles with red lights during a parade in Mecca

    Saudi Arabia prepares sea and possible land offensive against Houthis

  • An Iranian security officer walks past missiles on display in central Tehran

    Today in Focus
    US-Iran strikes risk regional war in Middle East - The Latest

    Podcast10:55
  • A US fighter jet launches amid the ongoing war on Iran, a day after joint US-Saudi strikes on Iraq

    US hits dozens of targets in Iran overnight as peace efforts under threat

  • US-Saudi strikes in Iraq push region into ‘uncharted territory’, analysts warn

  • The long read
    Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US

  • My best shot
    A 12-year-old casualty of war recovers in hospital: Alessio Mamo’s best photograph

  • US identifies soldier killed destroying downed Iranian drone in Iraq

  • Flavours of Iraq review – vivid childhood memories of 80s Baghdad from writer in Paris exile

  • New US military death as Israel warns Tehran’s attacks coming close

  • US intensifies attacks on Iran as Tehran hits back at Gulf states

  • Lindsey Graham tributes from Israel and Ukraine point to complicated, often bloody legacy

June 2026

  • Boats anchored off Oman's northern Musandam peninsula near the strait of Hormuz.

    Escalating US-Iran strikes threaten interim peace agreement

    Tehran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait amid efforts to open strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversight
  • A Houthi soldier mans a machine gun on a pick-up truck in Sanaa, Yemen

    Shadow war: how use of proxy forces by Iran, Israel and US is driving Middle East instability

    Across region there is a push to disarm militia and reinforce state authority but the temptation to use proxies remains
  • A woman with long hair, in jeans, and her daughter sit on the floor in front of the coffee table in their living room

    Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran

    Carmen Nasr’s adaptation of the film set during the Iran-Iraq war is searing enough to feel like a 2026 livestream
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