• Lebanon's Thin Red Line

    Hezbollah has so far not been drawn into all-out war with Israel. Targeted assassinations and border clashes are testing its resolve

    Prospect Magazine, January 2024

  • ‘The people don’t want the Americans’: Gaza war fuels tensions in Iraq

    The Guardian, November 2023

  • America's unwavering support for Israel fuel's Iran-backed "Axis-of-Resistance"

    The Intercept, November 2023

  • Inside a camp for Iraqis returned from Syrian detention

    The Guardian, June 2023

  • Iraq, Twenty Years Later

    The Boston Review, March 2023

  • Rifts remain in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq home town 20 years after his fall

    The Guardian, March 2023

  • ‘It is the memory of the people’: unpacking Iraq’s artistic heritage

    The Guardian, October 2022

  • ‘Who will protect us?’: Baghdad residents wait out fighting as city grinds to halt

    The Guardian, August 2022

  • Is Moqtada al-Sadr Trying to Stage a Jan. 6 Insurrection in Iraq?

    Foreign Policy Magazine, August 2022

  • Iraq’s Prime Minister Is Silencing Human Rights Advocates

    Foreign Policy Magazine, June 2022

  • The Soleimani Assassination Was Supposed to Weaken Iraqi Militias. Instead, They’re Flexing Their Muscles.

    Politico Magazine, August 2021

  • ‘There’s no rain’: Climate change threatens Iraq’s Bedouins

    Al Jazeera English, April 2021

  • Iraqi women struggle to escape abuse as domestic violence rises

    Al Jazeera English, February 2021

  • Iraq: The changing face of Baghdad’s historic neighbourhoods

    Al Jazeera English, September 2020

  • ‘They are worse than Saddam’: Iraqis take to streets to topple regime

    The Guardian, October 2019

  • Inside the Iraqi courts sentencing foreign Isis fighters to death

    The Guardian, June 2019

  • US-Iran tensions at Iraq-Syria border undermine fight against ISIS

    The Intercept, January 2019

  • Iraq’s disillusioned give up on political leaders

    Financial Times, August 2018

  • Inside the front lines of South Sudan’s unwinnable war

    Vice News, July 2017

  • Riding the Nile train: could lifting US sanctions get Sudan's railway on track?

    The Guardian, November 2016

  • 'I begged them to kill me instead': women in South Sudan raped under nose of UN

    The Guardian, July 2016

  • 'There's no work, no money': oil-rich but desperately poor South Sudan shuts up shop

    The Guardian, April 2016

  • Ethiopian bloggers on trial in case seen as crackdown on free expression

    The Washington Post, April 2015