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Alannah Travers

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As seen in: MSN Singapore, Al Jazeera English, The New Humanitarian, Revista de Prensa "Almendrón", JusticeInfo.net
Algorithmic Warfare and Civilian Harm PhD @qubschooloflaw @CeasefireCentre 🇮🇶 @c4jrOrg 📚 @SOASLaw 📮 alannahtravers@gmail.com

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Alannah Travers’s Biography

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I'm a British-German journalist based in Iraq, interested in politics, personal stories and the human impact of a heating climate.

You can read my work at: www.alannahtravers.com

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'So trapped': A young Iraqi driver's costly taxi to nowhere

'So trapped': A young Iraqi driver's costly taxi to nowhere

What's your money worth? A series from the front line of the cost-of-living crisis, where people who have bee…

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Refugees claim gas flaring cancer link in northern Iraq

Refugees claim gas flaring cancer link in northern Iraq

Erbil, Iraq - Shireen*, a 53-year-old Syrian refugee living at the Kawergosk Camp in Erbil, Iraq, started to …

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Iraqis born in 2003 reflect on a life that began with war

Iraqis born in 2003 reflect on a life that began with war

Twenty years ago this month, the US and several allies invaded Iraq, pledging to rid the country of its purpo…

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Taking stock of the UN's shift away from emergency aid in Iraq

Taking stock of the UN's shift away from emergency aid in Iraq

Twenty years since the start of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and more than five years after the country decla…

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Mutanabbi Street: An intellectual haven overcomes Iraq's pain

Mutanabbi Street: An intellectual haven overcomes Iraq's pain

Baghdad, Iraq - Haj Mohammed al-Khashali has outlived four sons and one grandson, killed together when a car …

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Basra, meine Perle

Basra, meine Perle

In der Ferne treiben verlassene Boote, näher am Ufer liegen versunkene, verrostete Schiffe in der gleißenden …

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And then they came to Baghdad

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| Revista de Prensa "Almendrón" Verified
The United States has decided to transfer about 7,000 prisoners suspected of being affiliated with ISIS – as seen here during a release in 2024 in Hasakeh – from northeastern Syria to Iraq. Photo: © Delil Souleiman / AFP Between 2013 and 2019, an estimated 40,000 citizens from countries beyond Iraq and Syria joined the Islamic State armed group (ISIS), drawing from Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, South East and Central Asia and as far as the US and Australia.
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Rendez-vous à Bagdad

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By Alannah Travers Verified
| JusticeInfo.net Verified
Entre 2013 et 2019, environ 40 000 citoyens de pays autres que l'Irak et la Syrie ont rejoint le groupe armé État islamique (EI), en provenance d'Europe, d'Afrique subsaharienne, d'Asie du Sud-Est et d'Asie centrale, et même des États-Unis et d'Australie. Lorsque des milliers d'entre eux ont été capturés sur le dernier territoire du califat vaincu, un cauchemar juridictionnel a été créé, que les États ont pour la plupart passé des années à essayer d'ignorer.
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And then they came to Baghdad

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By Alannah Travers Verified
| JusticeInfo.net Verified
Between 2013 and 2019, an estimated 40,000 citizens from countries beyond Iraq and Syria joined the Islamic State armed group (ISIS), drawing from Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, South East and Central Asia and as far as the US and Australia. When thousands ended up captured in the final territory of the defeated caliphate, a jurisdictional nightmare was created that nation states have mostly spent years seeking to ignore.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

No!

Why did you become a journalist?

Curious, want to shine light on injustice, fell in love...

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Be brave, travel