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Pressure mounts for independent investigation into alleged smuggling of British schoolgirl into Syria by Canadian agent in 2015

Allegations that her smuggler was a spy cast an entirely new light on the Home Office’s decision to strip Begum of her citizenship, says author Azadeh Moaveni

Canada and UK accused of covering up involvement of double agent in British teenager’s recruitment for IS

Ms Begum fled her east London home for Syria as a 15-year-old schoolgirl with her two friends in 2015.

Shamima Begum and two of her schoolgirl friends were trafficked into Syria by an ISIS agent who was working for Canada at the time, it has been alleged in a new book

Ten months after the October 2021 parliamentary elections, Iraq is still mired in a political impasse that turned deadly Monday after Moqtada al-Sadr announced his resignation from politics. Supporters of the powerful cleric clashed with followers of rival Shiite parties, plunging Iraq into a crisis that could draw in regional…

Almost half the population of Afghanistan are facing hunger

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish security forces have launched a new operation targeting Islamic State sleeper cells in a large northeastern detention camp where violence has reached record levels.

Iraq’s caretaker prime minister has warned that the political crisis in the country is threatening security achievements made in past years