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Iraq

March 2025

  • Warfare film still - Will Poulter Navy SEALs overwatch the movement of U.S. forces through insurgent territory in Iraq in 2006. Release date: 18 April 2025 (UK) Directed by: Ray Mendoza; Alex Garland

    Warfare review – film-makers’ message gets lost in the deafening blizzard of battle

    Co-directed by Alex Garland and former soldier Ray Mendoza, this brutally accurate account of a US special forces mission gone wrong is viscerally immersive, but unaware of a point or a meaning beyond the horror
  • a man in suit and tie on stage.

    ‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans

    Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportations

    • ‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds

    • The Folly of Realism review: Alexander Vindman on how US got Russia wrong

    • ‘We cleared rubble with our bare hands’: Iraqis rejoice as shattered Mosul rises from the ruins

February 2025

  • A poster of Abdullah Öcalan is held up by supporters in Diyarbakir, Turkey, after his statement on 27 February 2025.

    The Guardian view on Turkey and the PKK: an elusive peace is in view once more

    Editorial: Abdullah Öcalan’s call for fighters to disarm is an important moment. But a lasting resolution will require greater rights for Kurds
  • Crowd display three flags featuring the face of Abdullah Ocalan

    Jailed Kurdish leader calls for PKK to disarm – in shift that could shake up Turkey and Middle East

    Abdullah Öcalan’s message, which follows four decades of guerrilla warfare, will have far-reaching implications

    • ‘I could have been an Islamic State bride’: the story behind this year’s buzziest comic debut

    • USAid cuts sow feeling of betrayal among Yazidis, 10 years after IS genocide

    • Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts

January 2025

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president? | Arwa Mahdawi

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • A group of women and a child hold placards at a protest in Baghdad, Iraq

    Rights and freedom
    ‘The end of women and children’s rights’: outrage as Iraqi law allows child marriage

  • IRAQ-POLITICS-RIGHTS-WOMEN<br>Iraqi men join women in a demonstration against underage marriage in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on August 8, 2024, amid parliamentary discussions over a proposed amendment to the Iraqi Personal Status Law. Rights advocates are alarmed by a bill introduced to Iraq's parliament that, they fear, would roll back women's rights and increase underage marriage in the deeply patriarchal society. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Iraq passes laws that critics say will allow child marriage

  • Cars driving in front of a billboard in Tehran

    Islamist groups in Middle East will emerge from Gaza war weakened

  • A ceasefire deal is here. For Gaza, the Middle East and the world, the future remains unknown

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Starmer says ‘door remains open’ for Tulip Siddiq following her resignation as Treasury minister – as it happened

  • Rights and freedom
    Uncovering Iraq’s mass graves: the painstaking search for missing loved ones – photo essay

  • The Guardian view on the Blair-era archives: fateful decisions come in many guises

December 2024

  • Tony Blair, left, with George W Bush in 2004

    Advisers urged Tony Blair to rein in George W Bush over Iraq war ‘mission from God’

  • Barry Manners on his 2011 return visit to Baghdad

    Man held hostage in Kuwait in 1990 says BA staff’s homophobia made ordeal worse

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