Iraq

Children play in a mud puddle in the section for foreign families at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria on March 31, 2019.

Thousands of children are stranded at a camp in northern Syria. Who will repatriate them?

In al-Hol camp alone, there are currently 27,000 children living in dire conditions. They ended up in this camp after ISIS was territorially defeated.

Thousands of children are stranded at a camp in northern Syria. Who will repatriate them?
Hadi Jasim was an Iraqi translator for the US military. Now he's a "global guide" at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery
A displaced Iraqi woman, who fled from clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq

ISIS has found a new, deadly use for human shields in Mosul

ISIS has found a new, deadly use for human shields in Mosul
Iraqi fiction writer Anoud recently moved to New York.

2017 feels almost as strange as this writer's dystopian vision of Iraq in 2103

2017 feels almost as strange as this writer's dystopian vision of Iraq in 2103
Dr. Chalak Berzingi poses with his wife, Dr. Mayada Issa, and his daughter, Seher Berzingi.

This Iraqi doctor made his home in Trump country

This Iraqi doctor made his home in Trump country
A US soldier of the 2nd Platoon Charlie Troop, 3rd Squadron of 61st Cavalry Regiment questions a man with an interpreter (R) while on patrol with Iraqi National Police in a suburb of Baghdad, March 7, 2007.

Iraqi translators who served the US military are desperate for an exemption to Trump's travel ban

President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily bans Iraqis from entering the US — including men like Ahmed Hameed, who served for three years as a translator for the US army. While vets apply political pressure on the administration and the Pentagon compiles a list of former Iraqi partners, Hameed waits, fearful and hopeful.

Iraqi translators who served the US military are desperate for an exemption to Trump's travel ban
Nouhad was sold to an ISIS fighter when she was 16.

This Yazidi woman escaped her ISIS captors in Mosul, but had to leave her infant son behind

Hundreds of Yazidi women are believed to be held captive by ISIS in Mosul. But when ISIS leaves Iraq's second largest city, will the women still be there?

This Yazidi woman escaped her ISIS captors in Mosul, but had to leave her infant son behind
A group of Mosul exiles set up al-Ghad radio station to reach people in their city under ISIS control. The station manager says it's also helping people in the city communicate with one another.

This Iraqi radio station reaches people in Mosul who risk their lives to call in

ISIS tried to block the al-Ghad radio station from Mosul airwaves. Al-Ghad responded by jamming the frequency of ISIS's radio station.

This Iraqi radio station reaches people in Mosul who risk their lives to call in
An Iraqi police officer uses the device to inspect a car at checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, 2010.

These bomb detectors were proved phony years ago, yet they're still used in the Middle East

Thousands of fake bomb detectors were marketed and sold in the Middle East. But even though the manufacturers have been jailed for fraud, security guards are still using the phony detectors.

These bomb detectors were proved phony years ago, yet they're still used in the Middle East
Mourners react during a funeral of a victim who was killed in a suicide car bomb in the Karrada shopping area in Baghdad, during the funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, July 3, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

Baghdad just suffered Iraq's worst terror attack since the US-led invasion, and we've already forgotten

Iraqis say they can empathize with the people of Nice better than just about anyone.

Baghdad just suffered Iraq's worst terror attack since the US-led invasion, and we've already forgotten
Dana Maghdeed Aziz holds up the identification issued to him by the Germany government.

Some Iraqi refugees who made it to Europe are choosing to return home

“I was expecting a comfortable life and that they would provide us with help. But it was so difficult.”

Some Iraqi refugees who made it to Europe are choosing to return home
Aviation ordinancemen organize 1000 pound MK-83 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) bombs on their racks on the flight deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in this archival photo taken in the northern Persian Gulf March 18, 2003.

The US is dropping bombs quicker than it can make them

The Pentagon’s stockpile of air-to-ground munitions has suffered an unexpected dip — and it may take a long time to restore it.

The US is dropping bombs quicker than it can make them
An employee works at strengthening the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, in February 2016.

Mosul Dam could be scarier than ISIS

Iraq's largest dam was built in the 1980s under Saddam. Now US officials warn it's in danger of failing.

Mosul Dam could be scarier than ISIS
Ibrahim Esmael Ibrahim at the train station in Idomeni, Greece. As a teenager, he worked as a translator with the US military in Iraq.

An Iraqi translator for the US military is now stuck in Greece

The European Union is preparing to send thousands of asylum seekers back to Turkey. One of them is a man who worked with the US military in Iraq.

An Iraqi translator for the US military is now stuck in Greece
The immediate aftermath of a coalition airstrike on Syria in October, 2015.

The US is killing more civilians in Iraq and Syria than it acknowledges

America's fight against ISIS is creating more civilian casualties that it had initially reported.

The US is killing more civilians in Iraq and Syria than it acknowledges