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Eyewitness News
July 26, 2017
Trump to ban transgender US military personnel, reversing Obama. The administration has not determined whether transgender individuals already serving in the military would be immediately thrown out. US Army troops in Adhamiya, Iraq. Picture: US Army Facebook page/Sgt. Jeffrey Alexander.
The Economist
April 12, 2017
In March Asaib Ahl al-Haq, one of the largest militias, moved into the riverside palace of Sajjida, Saddam Hussein's wife, in Adhamiya, a staunchly Sunni neighbourhood of Baghdad. Much of the rest of the capital is already divvied up between 100 or so other militias. Unlike most Iraqi Shias, who professÃâà...
Newsweek
February 24, 2016
02_18_sunni_SS_08 Balasim, a Sunni villager, holds a young boy as he stands in a burned-out house in Albu Ajeel, a village in Salahaddin Province. The boy's mother was killed after stepping on a land mine as she tried to flee an ISIS-controlled area near Hawija, north of Baghdad. Balasim carried theÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
May 14, 2015
In the darkness of the early hours of this morning, the Adhamiya district in Baghdad blazed brightly in hues of orange and red as it was engulfed in the flames of sectarian saboteurs and terrorists. By the Shia-majority government's own claims, sectarian Shia militias and terrorists led by Shia clerics attackedÃâà...
National Geographic
August 1, 2014
Adhamiya is a no-car zone before Friday prayers—only taxis whose owners present a permit certifying that they live in the area are allowed. To enter many neighborhoods in Baghdad now, proof of residence must be provided at security checkpoints. Drivers without such proof have their ID and car registration papers heldÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
July 20, 2014
Many are still enraged that the 2003 U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, the late strongman who was a popular figure in Adhamiya, where he was last publicly seen until his capture by U.S. forces in December 2003 in a hide-out near Tikrit. The ouster of Hussein, a Sunni, upended the nation'sÃâà...
New York Times
December 21, 2012
“Hashimi is gone, now Essawi, and we have no Sunni leader left to follow,” said Ahmed Hashim, a shop owner in Adhamiya, a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad where several hundred people protested after Friday Prayer. At the protest, an imam in Adhamiya, referring to Mr. Talabani, said in a speech: “WeÃâà...
New York Times
April 19, 2006
The closing of Adhamiya, in northern Baghdad, seemed to signal deteriorating security in a neighborhood where attacks on American and Iraqi forces had ebbed in recent months. The area is home to hard-line Sunni Arabs who remain hostile to the Shiite-led government and the American presence.
New York Times
November 6, 2004
Twelve feet high, it separates Sunnis and Shiites in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad, and it is part of the American military's fight against the Iraqi insurgency. Adhamiya is becoming one of many walled and gated communities in Iraq; the Americans have been building them for months. Gen.
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