Khalid Razak

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva |Khalid Razak

An Israeli airstrike on a tent in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday evening killed several journalists and a 27-year-old father who was working with NBC News’ crew. The strike killed Ahmed Mansour, an editor with the Palestine Today news agency, and his co-worker, Hilmi Al-Faqawi. Yousef Al-Khozindar, a father of two working with NBC News to procure supplies and fuel, was in the tent next door being used by the news agency.

Dec 15, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Khalid Razak

Dec. 15, 2024, 10:00 AM UTCBAGHDAD — She was just 11 when she was sold into wedlock with a man 36 years her senior. In the nine years since, she said she has been raped, beaten, divorced and returned to her family, who hid her away out of shame and forced her into servitude.  Today she is a sex worker in the Iraqi city of Erbil having moved there recently from the capital, Baghdad.

Sep 30, 2024 | msn.com | Zoya Awky |Chantal Da Silva |Richard Engel |Charlotte Gardiner |Matt Bradley |Raf Sanchez | +1 more

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Sep 30, 2024 | aol.com | Zoya Awky |Chantal Da Silva |Richard Engel |Charlotte Gardiner |Matt Bradley |Raf Sanchez | +1 more

September 30, 2024 at 8:35 AMBEIRUT, Lebanon — Fears grew across Lebanon on Monday after Israel launched a strike on a residential building in central Beirut, marking a fresh escalation in a devastating bombing campaign that local officials say has already killed more than 1,000 people. "There's no safe place guaranteed in Lebanon," Jihan Kaisi, the executive director of the Union of Relief and Development Association, an organization helping displaced people across the country, said.

Aug 31, 2024 | yahoo.com | Khalid Razak |Daniel Arkin

BAGHDAD — Khairi Ali Ibrahim can feel the danger rising. Ibrahim is a member of Iraq’s Yazidi religious community, one of the most persecuted and vulnerable minorities in the world. At the height of that persecution, 10 years ago, Islamic State group militants ravaged the Yazidi population in the Sinjar district, slaughtering hundreds of men, forcing thousands of women and children into sexual slavery, and driving tens of thousands from their homes.