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Byline: Jane Arraf, Yasmine Mosimann and Emily Garthwaite BAGHDAD - Along the highway in the Dora suburb of Baghdad, the decapitated trunks of dead date palm trees rise up through [...]

Thousands of fans thronged an arena in the southern city of Basra for a match involving the national team. Many were angry to discover that they had been sold fake [...]

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud, a former intelligence officer accused of delivering the bomb that destroyed a passenger jet mid flight in 1988, was abducted from his home, according to relatives. [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf, Sangar Khaleel and Emily Garthwaite SULAIMANIYA, Iraq - Sitting under an oak tree on a mountainside in the Kurdish region of Iraq, Mohammad Kurd said he recently [...]

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq -- Sitting under an oak tree on a mountainside in the Kurdish region of Iraq, Mohammad Kurd said he recently fled neighboring Iran after two friends were killed [...]

Most who took part in antigovernment rallies try to stay below the radar in their own country, but some, particularly those injured in the crackdown, have been forced to flee. [...]

Two people were killed as security forces launched cross-border strikes at groups they accuse of fueling protests in Iran, which warned of more attacks. SULAIMANIYA, Iraq -- Iran launched ballistic [...]

The installation of a new prime minister and cabinet ends a long-running political deadlock, but perpetuates a system plagued by corruption and dysfunction. Iraq's Parliament approved a new government on [...]

The vote is the first step to forming a new government after a year of political deadlock and heightened instability. The Iraqi Parliament elected Abdul Latif Rashid, 78, a Kurdish [...]

Human rights groups say at least 185 people have been killed and thousands injured or arrested, but demonstrations that began after the death of Mahsa Amini have continued nearly a [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf People with disabilities in the country are often isolated and poor, and for those like Antonina Andriyenko and her daughter, Tanya, the fear and confusion of trying [...]

People with disabilities in the country are often isolated and poor, and for those like Antonina Andriyenko and her daughter, Tanya, the fear and confusion of trying to stay safe [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf and Farnaz Fassihi The protests that have swept Iran following the death of a woman in police custody have been especially intense in the country's minority Kurdish [...]

The protests that have swept Iran following the death of a woman in police custody have been especially intense in the country's minority Kurdish population. ERBIL, Iraq -- The protests [...]

Iranians fed up with oppressive rules and a battered economy have faced bullets, tear gas and arrests to demand an end to the Islamic Republic's rule. The largest anti-government protests [...]

The highly contagious disease has spread quickly in the country's north, where millions of people displaced by a decade-long war are living, and many rely on untreated water from rivers [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf and Emily Garthwaite BAGHDAD - On most days in the Iraqi capital, jackhammers and electric drills provide the soundtrack to a construction boom, with multistory restaurants taking [...]

BAGHDAD -- On most days in the Iraqi capital, jackhammers and electric drills provide the soundtrack to a construction boom, with multistory restaurants taking shape and a new $800 million [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf With no functioning government and no common ground, tensions among Shiite political factions have become a deadly matter in Baghdad this week. After years of harsh repression [...]

With no functioning government and no common ground, tensions among Shiite political factions have become a deadly matter in Baghdad this week. After years of harsh repression under Saddam Hussein, [...]

The violence erupted after the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said he is leaving politics. Protesters supporting Mr. Sadr took to the streets of the capital, Baghdad, and security forces [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf The museum determined that the handwritten manuscript, which is more than a thousand years old, had been looted from the monastery during World War I. The Museum [...]

The museum determined that the handwritten manuscript, which is more than a thousand years old, had been looted from the monastery during World War I. The Museum of the Bible [...]

The patriarch of Egypt's 10 million Coptic Orthodox Christians said his community has been squeezed by decades of government regulations on the number and size of churches. In Sunday's blaze, [...]

At least 41 people died from smoke inhalation and a stampede when a fire swept through a Coptic Orthodox church on Sunday. The church said a generator started the blaze. [...]

Hoping to end Russia's domination of the International Chess Federation, Andrii Baryshpolets is running for the presidency of the powerful governing organization. KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia's war against Ukraine has [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf and Oleksandr Chubko Recruiters approach young men on the street, but the standards are not always clear and there are reports of unwilling men being signed up [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf and Emile Ducke In a largely abandoned apartment complex on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, the people who stayed behind find comfort in their surroundings [...]

Recruiters approach young men on the street, but the standards are not always clear and there are reports of unwilling men being signed up while some eager to fight are [...]

In a largely abandoned apartment complex on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, the people who stayed behind find comfort in their surroundings and each other. SALTIVKA, Ukraine -- [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf The director of 'Sabaya,' about Yazidi women who had been sexually enslaved by ISIS, says that he wasn't present for a key scene and that he substituted [...]

The director of ''Sabaya,'' about Yazidi women who had been sexually enslaved by ISIS, says that he wasn't present for a key scene and that he substituted footage. BAGHDAD -- [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Valerie Hopkins and Jane Arraf Small groups of Western combat veterans are on the front lines, but many more with fewer skills are left trying to find [...]

Small groups of Western combat veterans are on the front lines, but many more with fewer skills are left trying to find a role to play. DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine -- Four [...]

The Ukrainian city's distinctive architecture has made it a world heritage site. Its architects are trying to balance aesthetics with sustainability as it prepares for a long war. LVIV, Ukraine [...]

The legislation, based on a similar law dating back to 1969, makes it a crime punishable by death. It makes Iraq an outlier in the Arab world, where more countries [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf About 10,000 residents have come back to this eastern Ukrainian city, which is racing to repair the physical and psychological damage from Russia's occupation. BUCHA, Ukraine - [...]

The Times recently asked readers what they wanted to know about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and turned to journalists who have been covering the war for answers. This page featured [...]

About 10,000 residents have come back to this eastern Ukrainian city, which is racing to repair the physical and psychological damage from Russia's occupation. BUCHA, Ukraine -- A breeze rustles [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf A campaign to crowdfund donations and weapons is producing millions of dollars as well as a bounty of smaller weapons and other military equipment for the Ukrainian [...]

A campaign to crowdfund donations and weapons is producing millions of dollars as well as a bounty of smaller weapons and other military equipment for the Ukrainian military. In a [...]

During the renovation of a former Catholic church, a mural by the Polish painter Jan Henryk de Rosen was uncovered. LVIV, Ukraine -- For years, no one paid attention to [...]

LVIV, Ukraine -- Workers were restoring electricity in Lviv on Wednesday, a day after Russian missiles struck power stations, as residents in the relatively safe western Ukrainian city braced for [...]

Byline: Jane Arraf, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Maria Varenikova LVIV, Ukraine - Long lines at gas stations across Ukraine are just the tip of a fuel crisis triggered partly by a [...]

Byline: Steven Erlanger, Jane Arraf and Marc Santora In Mariupol, the scene of intense fighting, civilians who had taken refuge at a steel plant were at least able to begin [...]

In Mariupol, the scene of intense fighting, civilians who had taken refuge at a steel plant were at least able to begin evacuating. BRUSSELS -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled [...]

LVIV, Ukraine -- Long lines at gas stations across Ukraine are just the tip of a fuel crisis triggered partly by a Russian blockade of seaports and attacks on Ukrainian [...]

Moscow is hitting fuel refineries and imperiling critical harvests, while Ukrainian forces are being buoyed by an influx of heavy weapons. Russia is calling in troops based in its far [...]

KRASNE, Ukraine -- Oksana Mazur was lying in bed with her ailing daughter, Olesia, on Monday morning when the first explosion hit the nearby railway where most of their family [...]

At times, Russian soldiers were almost friendly, advising them how to avoid shelling and showing them pictures of their own children. LVIV, Ukraine -- Yevhen Tishchenko stood on the train [...]