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Blood, bones paired to probe IS crimes against Iraq’s Yazidis | AFP

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

[Published here July 14, 2019]

Baghdad (AFP) – Six drops of blood and a vial of ground-up bone: a sample of evidence that an Iraqi forensics lab has gathered of the Islamic State group’s multiple brutal crimes against the Yazidis.

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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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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.
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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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