The Iraq War & Related Conflict In The Middle East

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  Oct 21, 2016
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  The New York Times - Nick Cumming-Bruce

  GENEVA — The top United Nations human rights official on Friday called the weekslong bombardment and siege of rebel-held parts of Aleppo “crimes of historic proportions” that had turned the ancient Syrian city into a “slaughterhouse.” As a “humanitarian pause” in attacks, declared unilaterally by …

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  At the Mosul Front: Traps, Smoke Screens and Suicide Bombers (Published 2016)

  The New York Times - Bryan Denton

  Mr. Denton, a Times photographer, and Mr. Gordon, a Times military correspondent, are with Kurdish forces near Sheikh Amir, Iraq, on the eastern approach to Mosul. The Kurdish pesh merga forces started their advance by moonlight, in the early hours of Monday. East of the Islamic State-held city of …

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  The New York Times - Tim Arango

  Mr. Arango, the Times Baghdad bureau chief, is reporting from villages and humanitarian aid camps near Mosul. JADAA, Iraq — The first thing Musar Abid did when he escaped the Islamic State this week was grab a razor. “I shaved this morning,” he said, smiling and pointing to his cheeks, smooth for the …

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  Sykes-Picot 100 years on

  The Economist

  How the carve-up of the Middle East compares with today's borders

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  The secret pact that became a scapegoat for all of the Middle East’s problems

  The Washington Post - Ishaan Tharoor

  This month marks the centennial of a secret pact. On May 16, 1916, two mid-level diplomats, a Briton and a Frenchman, concluded an agreement that essentially divided up the lands of much of the Middle East between the European powers. A map, seen above, initialed by Sir Mark Sykes and François …