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Anadolu Agency
October 16, 2017
The Turkmen community in northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk feel unsafe as reports emerge that members of the PKK terrorist organization were now freely roaming the streets, an Iraqi Turkmen politician told Anadolu Agency. The Kirkuk province along with parts of the provinces of Nineveh, Saladin (northernÃâà...
FAIR
September 30, 2017
The caption describes the scene: “Mourners carry the body of a militiaman loyal to Moqtada Sadr, killed in clashes with U.S. forces in Baghdad.” In the pictures, Time shows images only of dangerous militants. Suffering of ordinary people caused by Americans remains largely unseen. Still simmering on the back burner, theÃâà...
Broadband TV News
June 22, 2017
... including The State, a four-part event series on so-called Islamic State from award-winning executive producer Peter Kosminsky; The Long Road Home, based on Martha Raddatz's book on the events of the Black Sunday ambush of US forces in Baghdad; and the hit series Genius, executive produced byÃâà...
TIME
May 2, 2017
More than a movie about Italian photographer Franco Pagetti's work, the short documentary Shooting War (23 minutes) is a lesson in practicing critical visual literacy. Beyond the photographer himself, several people chime in, including Alice Gabriner, International Photo Editor at TIME who assigned the VIIÃâà...
New York Times
August 24, 2016
Early this year, a Facebook user in Baghdad using the name Hussein Mahyawi posted a photograph of a slightly worn M4 assault rifle he was offering for sale. Veterans of the latest war in Iraq immediately recognized it. It was a standard American carbine equipped with a holographic sight, a foregrip thatÃâà...
TIME
September 21, 2015
... asylum seeker Waad Turki-Abed (center, in blue life vest) and other migrants climb aboard a Greek coast guard vessel after trying to cross from Turkey to Greece in a rubber boat on Sept. 6, 2015. Before fleeing the war in Iraq in 2007, Turki-Abed says he worked as an informant for U.S. forces in Baghdad.
Foreign Policy
January 31, 2012
Al-Mashhadani and his initial core group or "ecosystem" began meeting immediately after the arrival of U.S. forces in Baghdad in April 2003. The meetings, which were interspaced with their daily prayers (both the early morning and final late night prayers), focused on the structuring of "companies" — theÃâà...
CNN
May 19, 2008
Jeffrey Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, flanked by leaders from Radhwaniya in the western outskirts of Baghdad, apologized for the staff sergeant who was a sniper section leader assigned to the headquarters of the 64th Armored Regiment. He also read a letter of apology by the shooter.
