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Baghdad blasts expose gaps in Iraq’s strained military | AFP

January 22, 2021January 23, 2021 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here January 22, 2021]

Twin suicide blasts in Baghdad claimed by the Islamic State group have exposed gaps within Iraq’s security forces, weakened by the Covid-19 pandemic, rival armed groups and political tensions.

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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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Iraq weighs larger NATO role to replace US-led coalition | AFP

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Written with Damon Wake in Brussels and published here January 29, 2020]

Baghdad (AFP) – Iraq is considering a larger role for NATO at the expense of the US-led coalition, Iraqi and Western officials told AFP, after an American drone strike on Baghdad that sparked outrage.

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Iran missile attack on Iraq’s Ain Al-Asad base: a timeline | AFP

January 14, 2020January 16, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on January 14, 2020]

Ain al-Asad Air Base (Iraq) (AFP) – A timeline of last week’s Iranian missile attack against the Ain Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, as seen through the eyes of some of the 1,500 US soldiers deployed there.

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Iraq warns of ‘collapse’ if Trump blocks oil cash | AFP

January 13, 2020January 16, 2020 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on January 13, 2020]

Baghdad (AFP) – Iraqi officials fear economic “collapse” if Washington imposes threatened sanctions, including blocking access to a US-based account where Baghdad keeps oil revenues that feed 90 percent of the national budget.

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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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“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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