With thousands of displaced families in Fallujah escaping the horrors of ISIL, the Kurdish town of Shaqlawa has seen its population swell – yet still welcomes the Sunni Arabs afraid of sectarian hatred in Iraq’s south.
Families in liberated parts of Mosul are still exposed to the dangers of war, but fear their suffering will be even worse […]
For two years, Iraq’s mass protest movement has been plagued by unsolved murders. As October’s election nears, they are making common cause […]
And estimated 400,000 civilians remained in the ancient city centre as Iraqi forces closed in on ISIS in Mosul. Human shields in […]
When an elderly man bursts into tears after realising that ISIL’s reign of terror has come to an end in his neighbourhood, […]
