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The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Detained geologist ‘heartbroken’ at missing daughter’s wedding celebrations

The family of Jim Fitton, 66, has renewed its appeal for UK ministers to help free him from Iraq.

The Independent UK

Daughter of Briton facing death penalty in Iraq ‘heartbroken and afraid’ as father misses wedding

‘The horrible, but very real, possibility of the death penalty is hanging over us,’ Leila Fitton says

The Independent UK

Iraqi cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi deepens intra-Shia dispute

The controversial figure has become the subject of widespread discussions in Iraq, igniting debates on his ideology.

Al Jazeera

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Shocking moment dad recklessly shoots cigarette out of young son's mouth

The heart-stopping clip, filmed in southern Iraq, saw the father tell the boy to place the cigarette in his mouth as he then takes aim with his Kalashnikov rifle

Daily Mirror

Review: The Nineties: A Book

Culture critic Chuck Klosterman's latest covers Nirvana, the first Iraq war, American Beauty, Waco, VCRs, and Ross Perot.

Reason

Iraq’s Sadrist Movement, Coordination Framework Bet on Independent MPs for Forming Gov’t

Sadrist Movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr concluded the forty-day deadline he granted his opponents (the Coordination Framework) to form the government, with a surprising tweet. A day after the Coordination Framework announced an initiative to solve the political impasse in the country, seven months after holding “early” elections, throwing the ball…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanese Abroad Cast Votes in Parliamentary Polls

The first phase of Lebanon’s parliamentary elections kicked off on Friday morning, for expats residing in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Syria, Oman, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq and Iran. The rest of the expatriates will vote in the second phase in 48 other countries on Sunday. Prime Minister Najib Mikati inaugurated…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Kurdish Official: 10,000 Fled Northern Iraq Fighting

More than 10,000 people have fled fighting between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters affiliated with Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an official from Iraq's Kurdistan region said Thursday. The latest figure is more than double the 4,000 which an official from the region reported on Tuesday had arrived,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Thousands Sick as Latest Severe Sandstorm Sweeps across Iraq

One person died in Iraq and more than 5,000 were treated in hospitals Thursday for respiratory ailments due to a sandstorm, the seventh in a month, the health ministry said. Duststorms have increased dramatically in frequency in Iraq in recent years, driven by soil degradation and intense droughts made worse…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ministers accused of abandoning UK geologist at risk of execution in Iraq

Family ‘baffled’ by Foreign Office after Jim Fitton arrested for taking pottery pieces from ancient site

The Guardian - UK

Severe dust storms in Iraq cause breathing problems for thousands - medics

A series of dust storms across central and southern Iraq have led to thousands of Iraqis attending hospitals and clinics to seek treatment for breathing problems, medical officials said on Thursday.

Reuters

Sandstorm suspends flights, many Iraqis struggle to breathe (old)

Hundreds of Iraqis have rushed to hospitals with breathing problems and the Baghdad airport suspended flights for several hours as a sandstorm blanketed the country, the fifth within a month

The Independent UK

Coordination Framework Clings on to Shiite Demand to Name Iraq PM

The Shiite Coordination Framework grouping of mainly pro-Iran forces in Iraq revealed on Wednesday a new initiative aimed at resolving the political impasse in the country that has thwarted the formation of a new government and election of a president six months after parliamentary polls were held. The initiative did…

Asharq Al-Awsat

British Man Found with Ancient Shards Could Be Tried in Iraq

A retired British geologist accused by Iraq of collecting small archaeological fragments had no criminal intent, his family said, expressing hopes the charges - potentially punishable by death - could be avoided. Jim Fitton, 66, was arrested last month at Baghdad airport after Iraqi customs officials found him and a…

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The Independent UK

British man found with ancient shards could be tried in Iraq

The family of a British citizen who could face trial in Iraq after being found in possession of small archaeological fragments is insisting he had no criminal intent

Daily Record

Mohanad Jeahze Celtic transfer interest 'escalates' as in demand left back subject of spying mission

The Premiership champions in waiting are keen on the 25-year-old Iraq international after a thrilling start to the season.

ABC News

Daughter of Robert Pether, jailed and feared tortured in Iraq, asks Scott Morrison to intervene in his case

Nala, 9, takes to social media to call on the Australian government to give more help to her father, who has been locked up in a Baghdad prison for more than a year.

The Independent UK

Yazidis, displaced again, fear more strife in Iraqi homeland

Internally displaced minority Yazidis say they are reluctant to return to their ancestral homeland in northern Iraq

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Salon

Russia and the U.S.: Dance of death

Doddering Cold War adversaries are marching toward war: For their decrepit elites, it's literally the last hurrah

France 24

‘If you don’t have a witness, you don’t have a crime’ says French photojournalist Patrick Chauvel

French photojournalist and war photographer Patrick Chauvel has covered over thirty conflicts, from Vietnam to Bosnia and Iraq – and now Ukraine. He explains how his early appetite for adventure soon evolved into an impulse that would go on to shape his life profoundly: a desire to tell the stories…

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Thousands Flee after Clashes Erupt in Embattled Iraqi Town

Thousands or people fled a northern Iraqi town amid fierce clashes between the army and an armed faction linked to a Kurdish separatist group, the military and local Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday. At least 3,000 people left Sinjar and its surrounding areas, the officials said, and headed farther north…

360info

Satellite-tracking Islamic State’s archaeological destruction

ISIS deliberately destroyed cultural heritage during its occupation of northern Iraq. Satellite and drone images revealed the damage as it unfolded.

Al Jazeera

Estimated 3,000 people flee armed clashes in northern Iraq

Clashes first erupted on Sunday when the Iraqi military launched an operation to clear the area of YBS forces.

The Guardian - UK

Mundher Al-Adhami obituary

Other lives: Iraqi-born political activist and pioneer in maths education who supported teachers in challenging children to think

The Independent UK

Jim Fitton: Family feel ‘completely abandoned’ by Foreign Office as Briton faces death penalty in Iraq

Son-in-law says 66-year-old is ‘certainly putting on a brave face and stiff upper lip for us’

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