Baghdad

After Karar Nushi was reportedly murdered in Baghdad, IraQueer’s Amir Ashour reveals ISIS’ notorious anti-gay violence is only one struggle facing LGBT people in Iraq.

If you want to understand what keeps going wrong in the Middle East, from Raqqa to Qatar, listen—at last—to what Gertrude Bell was saying 100 years ago.

The doc ‘Letters From Baghdad,’ narrated by Tilda Swinton, tells the story of Gertrude Bell, a British explorer who helped shape Iraq—only to be cruelly written out of history.

Iraqi mullah Muqtada al-Sadr, who led murderous campaigns against Americans, is now calling for Assad to go. What’s happening here?

Clandestine phone interviews with residents in parts of the city still held by the so-called Islamic State reveal its evolving strategy.

Forget about conquering new turf. All ISIS wants to do now is force fearful Iraqis to tear each other limb from limb.

Playing dress-up takes a gruesome turn.