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After Fall of ISIS, Iraq's Second-Largest City Picks Up the Pieces ... » Dec 10, 2017 ...MOSUL, Iraq — In the heat of the late summer sun, weeks after the end of one of the largest urban battles since World War II, a high school principal trekked from ...“We find resources. We find a way. It's the spirit of Mosul.” Continue reading the main story. Photo. Muthana Saleh, the principal of the Sharqiya... Nytimes.com

Saddam Hussein, Defiant Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence ... » Dec 30, 2006 ...Violence was a quick way for a young man who grew up fatherless in an impoverished village to get ahead; bloodshed became the major theme of his life. During the ....Mr. Hussein's next target was another neighbor, Kuwait, which Iraq had long considered part of Iraq and coveted for its deep-water port. Nytimes.com

A Bigger Problem Than ISIS? | The New Yorker » Jan 2, 2017 ...Two months earlier, ISIS had captured Mosul, a city of nearly two million people, as part of a ruthless campaign to build a new caliphate in the Middle East. For an occupying force, the dam, twenty-five miles north of Mosul, was an appealing target: it regulates the flow of water to the city, and to millions of... Newyorker.com

The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons ... » Oct 14, 2014 ...In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of .... 2001, Mr. Bush insisted that Mr. Hussein was hiding an active weapons of mass destruction program, in defiance of international will and at the world's risk. Nytimes.com

Stuck Without Water in Mosul, Neighbors Find a Way - The New ... » Feb 16, 2017 ...Jury-rigging water pipes and generator hookups, residents of east Mosul, newly freed from ISIS, are substituting ingenuity for government services. Nytimes.com

International News - The New York Times » Find breaking news, world news and multimedia on Africa, Canada, Mexico, South and Central America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Iraq. ... Shamsuldeen Ahmed Saed and Haitham Younis Wahab rigging a small water pump in the Rashidiya neighborhood. Stuck Without Water in Mosul, Neighbors Find a Way. Partners.nytimes.com

'Islamic State': Raqqa's loss seals rapid rise and fall - BBC News » Media captionVideo footage from Mosul after its capture by Isis shows militants driving through the streets, June 2014. It was 10 June 2014, and ...Like Christianity six centuries before it, and Judaism some eight centuries before that, Islam was born into the harsh, tribal world of the Middle East. "The original texts, the Old... Bbc.com

How ISIS Spread in the Middle East » Oct 29, 2015 ...Although ISIS took most of the world by surprise when it swept into the Iraqi city of Mosul in June 2014, the group and its forebears had been ...“I am sorry for America,” Sidawi said. “You are stuck. You have become a country of the Middle East. America will never change Iraq, but Iraq will change America. Theatlantic.com

Ben C. Solomon » Recent and archived work by Ben C. Solomon for The New York Times. ... Amadeo García García is the last man to speak Taushiro, a language spoken by an Amazon tribe. When he goes, an entire culture will disappear. We went to find him. By NICHOLAS CASEY, BEN C. SOLOMON and TAIGE JENSEN. Dec. 26, 2017... Nytimes.com

In Ramadi, Fetid Quarters and Unrelenting Battles - The New York ... » Jul 5, 2006 ...The American marines here live eight to a room, rarely shower for lack of running water and defecate in bags that are taken outside and burned. ...Instead of continuing to fight for the downtown, or rebuild it, they are going to get rid of it, or at least a very large part of it. ...That day seems a long way off. Nytimes.com