Iraq Shia alliance nominates former PM Nouri al-Maliki as its candidate
Al-Maliki remains potent force despite longstanding claims he fuelled sectarianism and failed to stop ISIL expansion.
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Abu Ghraib: Iraqi victims’ case against US contractor ends in mistrial
Three survivors sued the company CACI in civil court for abuses committed at the hands of US soldiers and contractors.
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The Abu Ghraib abuse scandal 20 years on: What redress for victims?
Two decades since images of Iraqi men being abused by US soldiers shocked the world, victims still seeking justice.
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Iraq slams US strikes that killed eight pro-Iran fighters
Baghdad denounces the strikes as a breach of its ‘sovereignty’.
US has failed to compensate tortured victims of its Iraq prisons: HRW
The US has failed to redress Iraqis who suffered from systemic torture and abuse in its prisons during the invasion.
The Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Michaeel Najeeb, holds an ancient Christian codex in Syriac at the Eastern Manuscript Digitisation Centre (CNMO) in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region. [Safin Hamid/AFP]
A boy looks at a sign written in Syriac at the Ashurbanipal Syriac School in Iraq's predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh, in Nineveh province. [Waleed Al-Khalid/AFP]
Syriac language teacher Salah Sarkis writes on a whiteboard as he gives a class at the Ashurbanipal Syriac School in the town of Qaraqosh. [Waleed Al-Khalid/AFP]
Syriac is taught at about 265 schools across Iraq, according to Imad Salem Jajjo, who is responsible for Syriac education within the education ministry. [Waleed Al-Khalid/AFP]
Mariam Ashur, right, and Mariam Albert, left, presenters of a programme on al-Syriania, stand with channel director Jack Anwia in a studio in Baghdad. [Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP]
Iraq's government launched the al-Syriania television channel in April 2023 to help keep the language alive. It has about 40 staff and offers a variety of programming, from cinema to art and history. [Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP]
Artist and museum curator Saliwa Shamoun Abba cleans a Syriac-inscribed plaque about the history of the Syriac Museum, in Qaraqosh. [Waleed Al-Khalid/AFP]
A Syriac language Bible on display at the Syriac Museum in Qaraqosh. [Waleed Al-Khalid/AFP]
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul Michaeel Najeeb retrieves an old Christian book at the Eastern Manuscript Digitisation Centre (CNMO) in Erbil. [Safin Hamid/AFP]
Archbishop Michaeel Najeeb looks through an old Christian codex in Syriac. [Safin Hamid/AFP]
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THE BIG QUESTION
Ukraine war: Did Putin learn from Bush’s Iraq horrors?
From Wagner’s crimes to the UN’s role, the Iraq invasion offered a preview of the Ukraine war. But not all is the same.
Twenty years after the US invasion, where are Iraq’s antiquities?
Thousands of artefacts are being shipped back to Iraq, but many more were taken during the post-invasion looting.
Iraq war, 20 years on: Visualising the impact of the invasion
The horrors of war, its long legacy, and its lost lives and heritage haunt Iraq two decades after the US invasion.
Iraqi refugee women in Jordan sew up a storm, and a future
Iraqi refugee women in Jordan are making and selling clothes through a project started by Italian priests and designers.
Iraqis born in 2003 reflect on a life that began with war
They want a better life, they want to leave, they want peace. Young Iraqis on how the 2003 Iraq war shaped their lives.
