Middle East

Iran: Pursuit of Morality Serves Political Aims

New drive to uphold Islamic dress code serves multiple purposes – keeping clerics happy, and testing public appetite for renewed confrontation.

16 Jun 10

Fate of fragile artefacts hangs in the balance amid competing claims from Baghdad and Jewish groups.

16 Jun 10

Probe of living conditions for residents of a Sulaimaniyah slum.

11 Jun 10

Young men who once took up weapons to fight Saddam now find other ways of asserting their manhood.

10 Jun 10

An Iraqi’s tale of an odyssey through war zones, trying to reach the West but ending up in Guantanamo.

10 Jun 10

Focus on cost of treatment and problem of mentally ill people living rough.

10 Jun 10

Spotlight on experiences of Kurds forced to leave shelled border villages.

9 Jun 10

Uprooted families in rural Kurdistan tell of struggle to get by.

9 Jun 10

Extortion racket feeds insurgency in volatile northern Iraqi city.

7 Jun 10

UN report found that 100,000 Iraqis have fled their homes since 2005 due to water shortages.

4 Jun 10

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