‘Protection’ Law Offers Little Safety

BAGHDAD - When Ali Sumerian, an editor for Al-Sabah newspaper, and three local media colleagues sat down for a restaurant meal after reporting on a demonstration in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Feb. 25 this year, security forces detained them. "We were accused of...

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For Iraqis, Treatment for Trauma is Luxury

BEIRUT - The young woman was walking with her husband along a Baghdad street when she was abducted, held captive and raped repeatedly by five militia men for several days. "Before, she was very proud of her body but now she is overweight – she eats to...

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Lebanon: What a ‘Safe’ Cluster Bomb Did

TYRE - The explosion ripped through the tiny garden in rural south Lebanon, hurling Naemah Ghazi to the ground. The shrapnel from the bomb sliced through her legs, and she rapidly lost consciousness. "There was a lot of blood," her mother Khadija recalls. "All her...

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