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Jun 5, 2024 | 
buffalonews.com | Emily Garthwaite
**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before THURSDAY 12:01 A.M. ET, JUNE 6, 2024. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** Journalist Hemin Bakir inside the Citadel bazaar in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on May 13, 2024. BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was just an AI chop shop. (Emily Garthwaite /The New York Times)
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May 29, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Nina Strochlic |Diana Markosian |Emily Garthwaite
Seddiq Salih had a favor to ask. It was dusk, and we were standing in his family’s small orchard on the outskirts of Slemani, a city known as the cultural capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. I’d been granted a meeting later that night with a secretive elder sheikh rumored to possess one of the finest collections of Kurdish manuscripts. Seddiq, a mild-mannered 65-year-old with a permanent smile, now looked serious.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Emily Garthwaite
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Iraqi farmers who once lived in Jurf al-Nasr, a stretch of land south of Baghdad under the total control of an Iran-backed militia called Khataib Hezbollah, at a camp for the displaced in Fallujah, on Sept. 21, 2023.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Alissa J. Rubin |Pablo Robles |Emily Garthwaite
Just south of Baghdad, the urban sprawl gives way to glimpses of green, with lush date palm groves bordering the Euphrates River. But few risk spending much time there. Not even the Iraqi military or government officials venture without permission.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Alissa J. Rubin |Pablo Robles |Emily Garthwaite
Just south of Baghdad, the urban sprawl gives way to glimpses of green, with lush date palm groves bordering the Euphrates River. But few risk spending much time there. Not even the Iraqi military or government officials venture without permission.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Emily Garthwaite
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save -- STANDALONE PHOTO FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH YEAREND REVIEWS -- A man watches volunteers search for bodies in the old quarter of Antakya, Turkey, three days after the earthquake, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Cora Engelbrecht |Emily Garthwaite
Algunas mujeres han arriesgado su vida para escapar a Irak u otros países cercanos, donde han encontrado refugio para empezar de nuevo. Sima Moradbeigi huyó de Irán con su marido y su hija, con la ayuda de un traficante de personas, después de que las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado le dispararan y la hirieran gravemente.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Cora Engelbrecht |Emily Garthwaite
Some have risked their lives to escape to Iraq or other nearby countries, where they have found havens to start over. Sima Moradbeigi fled Iran with her husband and daughter, with the aid of a human smuggler, after being shot and seriously wounded by state security forces.
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Mar 15, 2023 | 
nzz.ch | Inga Rogg |Emily Garthwaite
Die Amerikaner spielen für viele Iraker keine Rolle mehr – die Folgen ihres Einmarschs schon Manche Iraker sehnen sich nach den «goldenen» Saddam-Zeiten zurück, andere wollen alles, bloss das nicht. In einem Punkt sind sich die Leute in Bagdad allerdings einig. Viermal wurde das Restaurant von Selim Abdurrahman Jassem zerstört. Viermal hat er es in den letzten zwanzig Jahren wieder aufgebaut. Das erste Mal war am 9. April 2003.
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Feb 13, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Raja Abdulrahim |Emily Garthwaite
Since a disastrous earthquake a week ago, little international aid has come to the hard-hit northwest of Syria, which is under the control of opposition forces. Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. As protesters in al-Atarib, Syria, demanded more international aid, a local resident sat on the rubble of his home on Sunday.
