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  • Main title: (The story of Olfa's Daughters)   Photo's title: (Olfa and her two Daughters in the premiere of the Tunisian movie Olfa's Daughters at the cinema of the Kulturbrauerei-Cinestar, Berlin Hall) Place & Date: (Berlin –18th Jan 2024) - Copyright / Photographer: Copyright for Qantara, Mohammed Magdy
    Tunisian film "Four Daughters"

    Painful family ties

    Two of Tunisian single mother Olfa Hamrouni's four daughters joined IS in Libya. For more than nine years now, Hamrouni has been fighting to be reunited with her daughters. Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania has made a moving feature-length documentary on her story

  • Women burn incense in a procession during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of Islamic State (IS) in the northern Iraqi village of Kojo in Sinjar district
    German immigration policy

    Yazidis relive the horror as deportation looms

    Recently Germany's "culture of welcome" has given way to a much tougher asylum and immigration policy. Now Yazidi survivors of IS genocide face an uncertain, potentially re-traumatising future

  • A man and a woman sit at a desk, a window shielded by a blind in the background
    Canada: "Manufacturing the Threat"

    The sting that bit back

    Islamophobic incidents are once again on the rise across the Western world following the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. "Manufacturing the Threat" reminds us what lengths governments will go to to achieve the results they believe people want to see

  • A carte blanche for Netanyahu harbours risks. This applies especially to the military operation in Gaza. Western governments really ought to know this already.
    Israeli military offensive in Gaza

    Forces unleashed in the Middle East

    A carte blanche for Netanyahu harbours risks. This applies especially to the military operation in Gaza. Western governments really ought to know this already. An interjection by Stefan Buchen

  • In their battle against the Islamic State's Afghan cell, the Taliban have appropriated the tactics of their former enemy:  the Afghan government and its U.S. backers. They, however, are more likely to receive support from regional actors.
    Afghanistan

    The Taliban’s "War on Terror"

    In their battle against the Islamic State's Afghan cell, the Taliban have appropriated the tactics of their former enemy: the Afghan government and its U.S. backers. They, however, are more likely to receive support from regional actors. Analysis by Emran Feroz

  • Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq

    The deep scars left by IS terror

    For centuries, the Yazidis lived in the northern Iraqi region of Sinjar. In 2014, the region was overrun by the so-called "Islamic State", which committed genocide against the Yazidi population. This brutal chapter in Yazidi history has left deep and lasting scars. To this day, the community in Sinjar is still picking up the pieces. By Birgit Svensson

  • Locals on the Tunisian holiday island of Djerba, where a gunman killed five people last week during a Jewish pilgrimage, are asking why – and what happens next.
    Synagogue shooting in Tunisia

    What next for Djerba?

    Jews on the Tunisian holiday island of Djerba, where a gunman killed five people last week during a Jewish pilgrimage, are asking why – and what happens next. By Cathrin Schaer and Tarak Guizani

  • Members of Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion have allegedly carried out extrajudicial killings of activists.
    Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion

    Inside the death squad

    Bangladesh's elite counterterrorism force is committing extrajudicial killings, DW and Netra News reveal in a new investigation. Insiders confirm high-ranking approval. By Christian Caurla, Naomi Conrad, Arafatul Islam and Birgitta Schuelke

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    'Witnessing catastrophe'

    Iraq preserves memories of IS reign

    The horrors they endured under the Islamic State group may be in the past for the people of Iraq, but the traumatic memories remain. Now a research project is recording their witness testimonies for posterity.

  • It is 20 years since the U.S. began its invasion of Iraq. In his essay, Karim El-Gawhary describes how the supposed victor at the time became the loser.
    20 years Iraq War

    Farewell to the old world order

    It is 20 years since the USA began its invasion of Iraq. Alongside the countless dead Iraqis and U.S. soldiers, it was the West’s credibility in the Arab world that would fall victim to this war. As Karim El-Gawhary argues, this loss is still having consequences two decades later

  • Al-Hol camp in Syria

    Bring extremists' children out — but leave mothers?

    As Syrian camps housing families of Islamic State fighters get more dangerous, there are calls to bring children out, even if the mothers don't want to go. The idea of separating families is a controversial one. By Cathrin Schaer

  • Extortion and intimidation in Swat Valley

    Pakistan Taliban racketeering hits borderlands

    A lawmaker in Pakistan's rugged northwest was sipping tea with voters when his phone chirped to life – the Taliban were calling with a demand for 'donations'. "We hope you won't disappoint" read the chilling text from a shady go-between of the Pakistan chapter of the Islamists, known as Tehreek–e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

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