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One year after US killed Iran general, Iraq tensions boil | AFP

December 31, 2020January 23, 2021 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Produced with my colleague Ammar Karim and published here December 31, 2020]

One year after US forces assassinated Iran’s most storied commander, tensions are boiling between Iraq’s Washington-backed premier and pro-Tehran forces that accuse him of complicity in the Baghdad drone strike.

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Iraq, US launch strategic talks, with tempered expectations | AFP

June 11, 2020June 20, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here June 11, 2020]

After months of tensions, Baghdad and Washington are poised to launch strategic talks Thursday to reset ties — but even with a new US-friendly Iraqi premier, a major breakthrough is unlikely.

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As Iran missiles battered Iraq base, US lost eyes in sky | AFP

January 15, 2020January 16, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on January 15, 2020]

Ain al-Asad Air Base (Iraq) (AFP) – Moments after volleys of Iranian missiles began to batter Iraq’s Ain al-Asad airbase, US soldiers at the desert facility lost contact with their ultra-powerful — and expensive — eyes in the sky.

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What would a US withdrawal from Iraq look like? | AFP

January 7, 2020January 9, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on January 7, 2020]

Iraq’s caretaker premier Adel Abdel Mahdi contended Tuesday that he received signed copies of a letter the US had said was only an unsigned draft describing steps America’s military would take to leave Iraq.

Here is AFP’s look at what shape a withdrawal could take.

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US says Iran protest toll may surpass 1,000, mulls troops | AFP

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published with my colleague Shaun Tandon here on December 6, 2019]

Washington (AFP) – The United States said Thursday that Iranian authorities may have killed more than 1,000 people in a crackdown on demonstrations, which Washington cast as the clerical regime’s worst-ever internal challenge.

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In Iraq, political wrangling spawns debate over US troops | AFP

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Co-written with AFP’s Salam Faraj; published here January 22, 2019]

Baghdad (AFP) – From the halls of parliament to the lightning-fast rumour mills of social media, pro-Iran factions are demanding US troops withdraw from Iraq in a challenge to the country’s fragile government.

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Paving the way: Syria highway traces winning regime strategy | ِAFP

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on July 6, 2018]

From second city Aleppo all the way down to the border with Jordan, Syria’s longest highway cuts through fertile fields of green, buzzing industrial zones and four major cities.

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Dubai, being Dubai.
“Let the dead go first, then maybe one day the living can go.” Syrians sending the bodies of their loved ones across the border to their waiting relatives. Turkish authorities have allowed only the dead - not the living - to cross into Syria to be buried. Story in bio.
An Arabic workbook belonging to a Syrian child who was still trapped under the rubble. Attempted rescue operations just moments before a new body was pulled out. A Syrian man examines the body of his brother’s grandchild. Salah Al-Naasan, who lost his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren - including the one seen in the previous photo, the one pulled out of the rubble in the earlier video, and the unborn child of his pregnant, lifeless daughter-in-law. He is crying out to see if the unborn child can somehow be saved. On both sides of the border, Syrians suffer.
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