Author: Safaa Khalaf

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Smoke and fire in front of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad (photo: AFP)

Murder and kidnapping in Iraq

An inexorable tide

In today's Iraq, there is no force more powerful than the militias and no voice louder than those who seek to drive a wedge between the religious denominations, says Iraqi writer Safaa KhalafMore

Interview with Iraqi political scientist Ghassan Al-Attiyah: A nation torn apartViolence in the Arab world: Born of a barbaric stateProtesting corruption and mismanagement in Iraq: Caught in the spotlightBreaking the Middle East′s cycle of terror: The two-pronged strategy

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Most Recent Photo Essay

Forced removals: it's estimated that 8,000 refugees live in Bihac. The camps are overcrowded and every day there is talk of burglaries. There was a stabbing in front of the kindergarten. Next to Camp Bira, there were about 500 people not registered with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). In mid-June police picked them up and drove them to a site called Vucjak

The inhumanity of Bosniaʹs Vucjak refugee camp

Within eyeshot of the Bosnian-Croatian border, thousands of refugees are camping in squalor on a former garbage site. Their supplies are scarce. Photographer Dirk Planert was among them