A test explosion during a training exercise.
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What happens when a bomb explodes? This unique ‘blast lab’ found out.
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More than 14,000 Iraqi police officers have been killed since the US invasion in 2003.
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The Iraqi health sector has struggled for years to keep up with standards and technology in healthcare, due in large part to the 1991 sanctions.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, is visible as President Joe Biden holds a virtual meeting with the Mexican president at the White House in March 2021.
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What do Biden’s first 100 days in office mean for the next four years in terms of foreign policy? There are already some clues — but questions too.
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The pontiff visited war-torn areas of the north and gave a major address at the home of the main monotheistic religions.
Greetings: the first papal visit to Iraq.
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Attacks on churches and targeted killings of Christians began as Iraq descended into sectarian violence after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
People look at the remains of an exploded vehicle that the Islamic State used as a suicide bomb, on display in Iran in September 2020.
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President Trump has claimed the Islamic State was completely defeated on his watch – but an analysis of government maps and other reports shows his administration did only half the work.
Cylinder seal (left) and modern impression (right) showing two people drinking beer through long straws. Khafajeh, Iraq (Early Dynastic period, c. 2600–2350 B.C.).
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Beer was extremely popular in ancient Mesopotamia. Sipped through straws, it differed from today’s beer and was enjoyed by people from all walks of life.
An Iraqi militia member inspects the site of an Islamic State attack on Iraqi troops on May 3.
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The Islamic State is asking its followers to worsen the global pandemic, and its fighters are celebrating the toll disease and racism are taking on US society.
Training museum staff in Iraq in how to mark priceless heritage artefacts using SmartWater.
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Archaeologists working with museums in Iraq have protected more than 270,000 artefacts using SmartWater liquid technology.
Calls to ‘defund the police’ are growing across the US.
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Iraq, Guatemala and the autonomous region of Bougainville have all tried to demilitarise their police forces – with varying degrees of success.
A truck of displaced men, with Islamic State fighters believed to be among them, leaves the group’s stronghold in Baghouz in February 2019.
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Seven striking similarities between developments regarding Islamic State today and the period before its surge in 2013-14.
Cleaners enter the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where a coronavirus outbreak has killed more than 40 veterans.
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With the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources are now in deeper trouble.
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demonstrate against the US presence in Iraq on January 24.
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Iraq has asked the US to start withdrawing troops. If it doesn’t, that’s a breach of international law.
Packed and ready to leave? Perhaps not quite yet.
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The Pentagon has spent more than $800 billion on military operations in Iraq. But that doesn’t include money needed to care for veterans, rebuild the country or pay interest on war debt.
Anger in Iraq has mounted against foreign interference.
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Iraqis have taken to the streets to protest against the foreign interference – by both Iran and the US – in their country.
Saddam Hussein: on trial in 2006 in Baghdad.
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A short history of modern Iran-Iraq relations.
Diplomacy has provided a solution for how countries in conflict can communicate.
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Even when countries have broken ties with each other, they can communicate – as the US and Iran did just a few days ago.
Donald Trump announced new sanctions against Iran in his address, but said the US would not escalate its military response.
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Although neither side apparently wants conflict, tensions remain over the presence of US troops in Iraq and Iran’s decision to walk away from part of the 2015 nuclear deal.
President Donald Trump speaks from the White House on January 08, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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President Trump’s speech about Iran wasn’t just aimed at that country or the US. He also targeted NATO allies, urging members of the alliance to step up and help US efforts in the Middle East.