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In Iraq’s Baiji, mines turn farms into killing fields | AFP

September 3, 2019September 10, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on September 3, 2019]

One man lost his uncle. Another is mourning for two sons. Farmers and herders in Iraq’s Baiji say mines left by the Islamic State group turned their beloved orchards into killing fields.

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In Iraq, minority children haunted by ghosts of IS captivity | AFP

July 14, 2019July 15, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 14, 2019]

Khanke Displacement Camp (Iraq) (AFP) – Brainwashed and broken, the Islamic State group’s youngest victims are struggling to recover from years of jihadist captivity as they return to their own traumatised minority communities in Iraq.

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Agony of Yazidi women torn between IS kids, or return home | AFP

July 14, 2019July 15, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 14, 2019]

Baadre (Iraq) (AFP) – Freed after years in jihadist captivity, Jihan faced an agonising ultimatum: abandon her three small children fathered by an Islamic State fighter or risk being shunned by her community.

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Born under IS, sick Iraqi children left undocumented, untreated | AFP

May 16, 2019May 17, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here May 16, 2019]

Laylan (Iraq) (AFP) – No documents? No doctor. Without state-issued IDs, Iraqi mothers struggle to have children born under the now-defeated Islamic State group treated for conditions ranging from asthma to epilepsy.

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IS chief refers to Syria defeat in first video in five years | AFP

April 29, 2019May 1, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Co-written with AFP’s Ali Choukeir; published here on April 29, 2019]

Baghdad (AFP) – The Islamic State group’s elusive supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first purported appearance in five years in a propaganda video released Monday, acknowledging IS’s defeat in the Syrian town of Baghouz while threatening “revenge” attacks.

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Iraq offers to try foreign IS suspects, for a price | AFP

April 10, 2019April 10, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here April 10, 2019]

Iraq has offered to put on trial hundreds of accused foreign jihadists in Baghdad in exchange for millions of dollars, potentially solving a legal conundrum for Western governments but sparking rights concerns. Continue reading →

Yazidi doctor soldiers on in mental battle against IS | AFP

March 13, 2019April 4, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here March 13, 2019]

Dohuk (Iraq) (AFP) – The military fight against the Islamic State group may be nearing an end, but one Yazidi doctor treating survivors is soldiering on against unseen scars the jihadists carved into her community.

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Largest IS mass grave yet found outside Syria’s Raqa | AFP

February 21, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 21, 2019]

Two feet deep, below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqa, lies a large and deadly legacy of the Islamic State group: a mass grave holding an estimated 3,500 people.

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Civilians stream out of Baghouz | BBC Scotland

February 16, 2019June 13, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

I spoke to BBC Scotland’s Isabel Fraser and Gordon Brewer on February 16, 2019 on the deeply disturbing state of civilians fleeing the final Islamic State group pocket of Baghouz in eastern Syria.

Listen in here, with my interview starting around 1:07:00.

Tribal truckers, praying paramedics: mixed bag on last IS front | AFP

February 15, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 15, 2019]

As destitute civilians stumble out of the Islamic State group’s last enclave in east Syria, a mixed bag of unlikely characters are pitching in to help get them to safety.

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