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(left) Yazidi refugees (right) NYT journalist Rukmini Callimachi (Rami Khoury/Al Bawaba)

August 19th, 2018 - 12:56 GMT

The New York Times’ ‘Caliphate’ Podcast Endangers Iraqi Lives

The podcast everyone in DC is listening to, Caliphate hosted by Rukmini Callimachi, wades through a fragile and angry Iraqi society with a machete, ruthlessly cutting down its vulnerable subjects in pursuit of a tale already told.

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June 15th, 2014 - 07:27 GMT

Iraq's volunteer forces battle ISIL for control of Diyala Province

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June 11th, 2014 - 07:28 GMT

The shadowy figure who leads ISIS: Who is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?

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June 8th, 2014 - 09:13 GMT

The ongoing chaos inside Syria is helping al-Qaeda grow stronger

At least ten Shia pilgrims have been killed and several others wounded in terrorist attacks in northern Iraq. (AFP/File)

May 4th, 2014 - 10:14 GMT

At least 10 Iraqi pilgrims killed in terrorist attacks

raqis gather following an explosion at a bus station on October 27, 2013, in the the Mashtal district of the capital Baghdad. (Image credit: AFP)

November 2nd, 2013 - 03:28 GMT

U.N.: 979 people died in Iraq in October

Eight suicide bombers killed six people in Iraq on Sunday in a wave of coordinated attacks on Baghdad. (AFP/File)

October 20th, 2013 - 09:52 GMT

Eight suicide bombers kill six in wave of Baghdad attacks

Six people were killed after a suicide bomber targeted the house of a senior policeman in northern Iraq. (AFP/File)

October 20th, 2013 - 08:53 GMT

Six killed in Iraq suicide bomber attack

An Iraqi boy stands at the site the morning after a car bomb attack. (Image credit: AFP)

October 12th, 2013 - 04:16 GMT

Car bomb targeting Eid Al-Adha shoppers kills twelve in Iraq

11 Iraqis were killed in a popular grocery market after a car bomb exploded on Thursday evening. (Getty)

August 29th, 2013 - 05:03 GMT

Car bomb targeting market north of Baghdad kills 11

Iranian Shiite Muslim pilgrims walk past a member of Iraq's security personnel in Kerbala, 110 km south of Baghdad, June 7, 2013. (Reuters)

June 8th, 2013 - 09:27 GMT

Saturday morning car bomb kills 8 in Iraq

An Iraqi security officer inspects the site of an explosion on Wednesday in Kirkuk. (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP)

January 17th, 2013 - 09:44 GMT

Car bombs 'kill at least 11' Shiite pilgrims in Iraq

Iraqi forces

February 12th, 2011 - 04:37 GMT

Iraq: Over 30 killed in attack as mass grave found