Tightened border restrictions after last month’s deadly bombing are cutting off desperately needed food and water.
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Baghdad’s ice cream diplomacy
American and Iranian franchises overcome difficulties to take a slice out of a burgeoning market for fast food.
Iraq’s former luxury resort now its worst camp
Halfway between Ramadi and Fallujah and cut off from any major city, former resort now full of refugees from Anbar.
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ISIL’s war on art across the cradle of civilisation
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Is Iraq ready to take on ISIL?
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Battered but never broken Baghdad ends night curfew
Celebrations erupt in Iraqi capital as curfew, first imposed by US in 2003 and aimed at curbing violence at night, ends.
Iraq’s war within a war
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