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US to transfer up to 7,000 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq

US Central Command say they are hoping to ‘ensure the terrorists remain in secure detention facilities’

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A UH-60 Black Hawk flies during a mission in the US Central Command area of operations within designated areas of Iraq and Syria (Picture: Maj. Karl R. Cain II/U.S. Army)

A historic aerial shot of the house, known in the family as Beit Lawee (Picture: courtesy of Philip Khazzam)

Jewish family whose home was ‘squatted’ by French ambassadors ‘lost 14m euros in rent’, lawyer says

By Shirli Sitbon

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A historic aerial shot of the house, known in the family as Beit Lawee (Picture: courtesy of Philip Khazzam)

Jewish family sues France for over £24m for using stolen family home as Baghdad embassy

By Siam Goorwich

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Israeli-Russian student Elizabeth Tsurkov has been freed two years after being kidnapped by an Iraqi militia (Image: X/@ARED_ALHOR)

Israeli-Russian student kidnapped in Iraq freed after two years

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Linda Dangoor's flavours take us from the Tigris to the Thames

‘My Iraqi motherland rejected me because I was Jewish. It’s left a scar’

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A number of Iran-backed militias in Iraq are reportedly willing to disarm to avoid US escalation in the region (Image: Getty)

Iran-backed militias in Iraq ‘willing to disarm’ to dodge US escalation

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Francesca Albanese claimed that allegation of antisemitism against her have been 'weaponised' to stifle her criticism of Israel (Image: The Rest is Politics)

Jake Wallis Simons

By Jake Wallis Simons

The unbearable lightness of Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell

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Seth J. Frantzman

By Seth J. Frantzman

2025 could see a wave of optimism spread across the Middle East

The regime falling in Syria could usher in a new era of cooperation in the region

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December 31, 2024 10:01

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha (Andriy Sybiga) (C-L) leads a delegation of officials including Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval (2nd-L) as they are received by Syria's new leader and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) chief Ahmed al-Sharaa (C-R) in Damascus on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP) (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF downs missiles from Iraq heading to Golan Heights

The projectiles were intercepted with no injuries or damage reported

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September 22, 2024 09:06

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system (Getty Images)

Outrage after Sky News blames Syrian ‘militias’ on Gaza war

Correspondent Alex Crawford accused of broadcasting ‘poisonous propaganda’

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August 14, 2024 10:40

Alex Crawford said the war in Gaza was having 'many more unforeseen, unpredictable consequences' (Photo: Sky News)

Iraqi asylum seeker claimed he was gay and Jewish to try and stay in UK

The man, who has been fighting to stay in Britain for three years, also claimed to be 'gay or bisexual'

By Richard Percival

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August 21, 2023 09:54

Iraqi asylum seeker claimed he was gay and Jewish to try and stay in UK

The Jewish playwright who's turned her family's Iraqi story into a play

Dina Ibrahim's new play delves into the history of a Jewish family in Iraq

By Sandy Rashty

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August 4, 2023 10:10

The Jewish playwright who's turned her family's Iraqi story into a play

Iran-backed militia holds Israeli citizen hostage in Iraq

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, has been missing for four months

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July 6, 2023 08:42

Iran-backed militia holds Israeli citizen hostage in Iraq

Joe Mintz

Don’t be taken in by Avi Shlaim’s view of Zionism

The Corbynite academic is pushing a theory that blames Jews for their own troubles in Iraq

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June 22, 2023 10:10

Don’t be taken in by Avi Shlaim’s view of Zionism