West Nineveh: “Sinjar is special,” the officer at the checkpoint said, refusing to allow me to continue on to the Yazidi homeland of Sinjar.“You will…

Baghdad: The Islamic holy month of Muharram has started in the Iraqi capital against the backdrop of another authorisation to burn a copy of the…

Baghdad: “Cold water! Cold water!” shout young children darting to and fro in dirty flip-flops, plying small bottles amid the traffic and at dusty…

Baghdad: Clutches of policemen direct traffic under the hot summer sun and mull around near their vehicles in apparent boredom in Inner Karrada, an…

Tarmiyah: An Iraqi Air Force strike reportedly killed several Islamic State (IS) fighters on 17 June in a largely agricultural area less than an hour…

Mosul: It’s a sweltering Friday in this city of well over a million people, while thousands of former residents remain displaced elsewhere and unable…

Baghdad: Online and in the streets of this city filled with billboards commemorating well-known Shiite ‘martyrs’ killed by the US, Iraqi militant…

Istanbul: On 27 May, Iraq hosted a conference on a major regional transportation project that will cost an estimated $17 billion and will link Iraq…

Istanbul: “We are scared,” a Syrian man in a major Turkish city lamented to Al Majalla.“I’m having many problems these days.”“It has become normal to…

Istanbul: The overcast skies of election day in this most populous of Turkish cities had become clear by the next morning, as had the fact that the…