On Tuesday, a German court convicted five individuals of belonging to a Daesh local cell that received orders from a senior Daesh commander in Afghanistan. Tajik citizens aged 25 to 34 were sentenced to severe jail terms by a regional court in Düsseldorf. Sunatullokh K., whose surname was withheld owing to German privacy laws, received … Read more
BAGHDAD – Learning to make yogurt, butter and cream gives 32-year-old Zainab Hazem and her Iraqi counterparts new hope they can support their families in the war-torn town of Al-Hamdaniya in Iraq’s Nineveh province. Zainab had fled her village in the Nimrud area in 2014, escaping only two hours before the Daesh group took control. … Read more
Hundreds of people braved sub-zero temperatures in Kabul to queue outside the passport office on December 20 morning, a day after the Taliban government announced it would resume issuing travel documents. Many began their wait the previous night and most stood patiently in single file, some desperate to leave the country for medical treatment, others … Read more
Left in ruins by militants, Iraq’s once-celebrated Mosul museum and its 2,500-year-old treasures are being given a second life thanks to restoration efforts backed by French experts. Ancient artefacts in the museum were smashed into little pieces when Daesh group fighters seized the northern city of Mosul in 2014 and made it their seat of … Read more
