Police Linked to Tel Afar Reprisals
Authorities vow to investigate claims of police involvement in murders of Sunni following Tel Afar bombings.
Authorities vow to investigate claims of police involvement in murders of Sunni following Tel Afar bombings.
Kurdish traders hit hard by border crossing closure - seen by some as bid by Baghdad to put squeeze on Iraqi-Kurdistan.
Daily exposure to violence has traumatised Iraq’s children.
Mosul officer speaks candidly of his anxieties and fears as insurgents increasingly target the force.
Terrified residents are forced to comply with puritanical Islamic laws as insurgents tighten their grip on the city.
The poppy harvest is in and everyone from the Taleban to local government officials is cooperating to get the opium crop to market.
North Caucasian people say a historical crime against them has gone unremembered.
The Yezidi minority has so far stayed well out of Iraq’s internecine battles, but violence with their Muslim neighbours has escalated following the murder of a girl who apparently converted to Islam.
Membership of a South Asian economic grouping may not be all it is cracked up to be.
Armenians and Azerbaijanis look for ways round new curbs on migrant workers, while Georgians take most of the heat.