Afghan women still face shocking patterns of rape, domestic violence, forced marriage and the routine denial of justice, with the international community…
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The young cleric called several thousand on to the streets of Najaf last week The deaths of three American soldiers yesterday, men…
The western media focused on the number of civilians killed in Iraq, but the country’s ill-prepared armed forces suffered far greater losses…
Abdul al-Malaki lives opposite the gatehouse of the extravagant palace that Saddam Hussein built in his home town of Tikrit. Flanked by…
Children lying on dirty vinyl mattresses, desperate mothers clutching whimpering infants, harassed doctors signing prescriptions that they barely have time to read…
Nearly 1.5 million refugees and asylum seekers are likely to try to flee from Iraq, and 30% of the country’s children under…
It was in Gaza that Major Rami Kaplan, a 29-year-old “veteran” of Israel’s prestigious Armoured Corps, began to feel that he had…
Khan Yunis. Every day Usama Khalid jumps into a car or taxi queuing at an Israeli checkpoint, travels 300 yards, and gets one…
It’s a hard world to be born into, even for nation-states. This week East Timor, half of a small island a few…
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