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Saudi-led strikes on Yemen port, fears for civilians

The Saudi-led coalition has intensified air strikes on the Yemen port of Hodeidah, potentially trapping civilians and endangering a humanitarian operation to import vital supplies, the United Nations human rights office said Friday. Yemeni government forces backed by Gulf Arab troops have...

Remove Iraq from travel ban list, PM tells Trump

 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call to remove his country from a contentious travel ban list, a statement said Friday. Iraq is one of seven Muslim-majority countries whose citizens are barred from entering the United States for 90 days...

Iraq's 'cycling girls' ride for freedom

Her name is Marina Jaber but to many she is "the girl on the bike", a young Baghdad artist inspiring Iraqi women to exercise their rights one pedal at a time. In Iraq's conservative society, the young woman cuts an unusual figure when she rides her red bicycle in the streets of the capital,...

Having fled fighting, Iraqis and Syrians learn to code

At a training course in northern Iraq, people displaced by the wars in Mosul and neighboring Syria are learning how to code. Some are already being sought by global companies even though they live in sprawling, dusty camps near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, not far from Islamic...