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Mosul battle leaving legacy of environmental damage | AFP

December 12, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on December 12, 2016]

Qayyarah, Iraq // The battle to retake Mosul from ISIL is leaving a legacy of environmental damage and health risks that will pose dangers to people for years to come.

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Iraqi firefighters battle to tame IS oil well fires | AFP

November 20, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 20, 2016]

Clad in red helmets and surgical masks, the firefighters emerged exhausted from the massive column of smoke streaming almost incessantly out of an oil well in northern Iraq.

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Informants and interrogations crucial to Mosul advance | AFP

November 19, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 19, 2016]

Identification cards and cell phones in hand, dozens of Iraqi men and boys trudge down a dusty road in eastern Mosul towards intelligence officials waiting apprehensively outside the neighbourhood mosque.

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Mosul mechanics fight IS with wrenches | AFP

November 18, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 18, 2016]

They are armed with wrenches instead of rifles and are rarely found on the front lines, but Mosul’s mechanics say they are indispensable to the fight against the Islamic State group.

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Foreign medics treat wounded children in Iraq’s Mosul | AFP

November 16, 2016April 19, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 16, 2016]

Foreign medics are helping Iraqi special forces personnel treat a growing number of children wounded by intense urban warfare inside the jihadist-held city of Mosul.

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‘Take cover!’ Tackling IS car bombs in Iraq | AFP

November 15, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 15, 2016]

It only takes a split second for the expression on the Iraqi soldier’s face to transform from relaxed contentment to absolute terror. “Car bomb!”

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Iraqi troops listen in on IS walkie-talkies in Mosul | AFP

November 12, 2016February 24, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on November 12, 2016]

Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) – “Two grooms are coming,” a low voice crackles over the walkie-talkie, prompting a lanky Iraqi special forces soldier listening in Mosul to shout: “Boys! They’ve just dispatched two suicide bombers!”

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I’ve reached the highlight of my career: figuring out ways to eat my way to a story. But really - tracing Doha’s transformation through the stories of a few of its famous eateries was both eye-opening and mouthwatering. The city’s oldest restaurateurs told me how gentrification forced them to move locations, an explosion in the worker presence expanded their customer base and their smashing of taboos created new social spaces. Read the story in my bio and slide into my DMs for recommendations.
Like any country, Qatar is a complicated place, with complicated stories and complicated stratifications. An ultra-bright spotlight has been shown on the country and its rights record since it won hosting rights to FIFA’s World Cup 2022 - but the floodlights have sometimes missed the details.
This ball made it from Doha to a displacement camp in northern Syria, where kids pushed out of their homes by more than a decade of war played a few matches with it, and circled back to Qatar in time for the #worldcup2022 kickoff on Sunday.
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