Campbell MacDiarmid

Iraqi lead­ers say coun­try is in the best state since the March 2003 Amer­i­can in­va­sion; or­di­nary Iraqis re­main scep­ti­cal.

Mostafa Taei’s paint­ings be­came a record of grue­some atroc­i­ties: be­head­ings, in­jured chil­dren and hang­ings.

Fac­ul­ty and stu­dents of Mo­sul Uni­ver­si­ty, which was re­cent­ly re­tak­en from ISIL, vow to save its lega­cy.

The bat­tle for Mo­sul is ex­pect­ed to dri­ve hun­dreds of thou­sands more peo­ple to­wards Iraq’s Kur­dish re­gion.

A low-bud­get in­die hor­ror film, Curse of Mesopotamia, is shak­ing up the film in­dus­try in Iraq’s Kur­dish re­gion.

Armed groups op­er­at­ing in north­ern Iraq have re­cent­ly sta­tioned forces along the Iraqi-Iran­ian bor­der.

Wa­ter-shar­ing deal has brought con­flict be­tween Egypt and Ethiopia over mas­sive hy­dro­elec­tric dam clos­er to res­o­lu­tion.

In the run-up to the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, the mil­i­tary-backed gov­ern­ment has tar­get­ed and cen­sored jour­nal­ists.

While con­struc­tion of Africa’s largest hy­dro­elec­tric dam con­tin­ues apace, down­stream neigh­bour Egypt is cry­ing foul.