Topic: 'Islamic State' | IS

Aisha, 51, who said she lost five family members when the deadly storm hit her city, reacts as she walks past destroyed houses, in Derna, Libya, 17 September 2023 (image: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

Libya's Derna

A city known for rebellion – and neglect

A member of the Taliban guards women queuing for aid (image: Ebrahim Noroozo/AP/picture-alliance)

Taliban Afghanistan 2 years on

Report from a forgotten land

Protests in Baghdad against the Koran burnings (image: Ali Jabar/AP/picture alliance)

Sweden Koran burnings

Playing to the radicals

Salwan Momika draws attention to his controversial action in Stockholm (image: Stefan Jerrevång/TT NEWS AGENCY/picture alliance)

Koran-burning in Sweden

The Iraqi Christian turned radical

People with bloodstained clothes (image: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP/picture alliance)

Afghanistan

The Taliban’s "War on Terror"

Saudi anti-drug agents arrest an alleged smuggler in Jeddah. The kingdom is captagon's main market (image: Saudi Ministry of Interior/AFP/File)

Trading in amphetamines

How Syria became a narco state

Life-size red letters and a heart spell out "I love Sinjar" on a street in the city of Sinjar, Iraq (photo: Birgit Svensson)

Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq

The deep scars left by IS terror

Pakistani schoolchildren at the computer (image: Reuters/C. Firouz)

Education in Pakistan

Digital learning for more opportunity

Construction site of St. Tahira Church in Mosul (image: Philip Breu)

Reconstruction of Mosul in Iraq

"The city will be stronger in future"

Iraqis leave the city of Basra after the U.S. attack (image: Nicoletti/dpa/picture-alliance)

20 years Iraq War

Farewell to the old world order

Scene from Baghdad (image: Hella Mewis)

20 years after the U.S. invasion

Iraq's wounds are slow to heal

Mourners carry the remains of people from the minority Yazidi sect, who were killed by Islamic State militants, after they were exhumed from a mass grave, to bury them in Kojo, 6 February 2021 (image: REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani)

20 years after Saddam's fall

Iraq still haunted by missing persons

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stands next to a display featuring images of Yazidi victims of IS terror (image: Michael Kappeler/dpa/picture alliance)

Germany's Baerbock in Iraq

German foreign minister pushes for stability

Baghdad Reading Festival on the Tigris (image: Birgit Svensson)

Iraq's art and literature scene

Culture boom in Baghdad

Whirling dervishes in Konya, Turkey (image: Marian Brehmer)

The future of Islamic mysticism

Is Sufism under threat?

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