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Balint Szlanko

Iraqi security forces and Popular Mobilization Forces patrol in Tuz Khormato, that was evacuated by Kurdish security forces, 130 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP Photo)
October 17, 2017, 6:03 pm
After Kirkuk, Kurdish forces pull out of more areas in Iraq
Withdrawal of peshmerga from Sinjar is the second such move from territory they dispute with Iraq’s central government
By Balint Szlanko
Iraqi security forces and volunteers celebrate in front of Governorate Council Building in Kirkuk, Iraq, October 16, 2017. (AP/Emad Matti)
October 17, 2017, 9:51 am
Iraqi forces push into disputed Kirkuk as Kurds withdraw
US, which armed both sides in the past, says events are ‘coordinated movements, not attacks’
By Balint Szlanko and PHILIP ISSA
Iraq's Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani (L) receives Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on September 9, 2017, in Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. (AFP/Safin Hamed)
September 12, 2017, 7:34 pm
Iraqi parliament rejects ‘unconstitutional’ Kurdish referendum
In Kirkuk, Iraqi Kurdish leader defends independence vote on September 25, says it’s ‘entirely legal’
By Balint Szlanko and MUHANAD AL-SALEH
Residents walk past the crooked minaret of the iconic al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, Iraq, June 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
June 22, 2017, 12:47 am
Islamic State destroys iconic al-Nuri mosque in Mosul
‘Iraq’s Tower of Pisa,’ where al-Baghdadi declared Islamic caliphate in 2014, had stood for over 840 years; IS claims US airstrike destroyed famed leaning minaret
By Balint Szlanko
In this screen grab from video, a man comforts his daughter as a doctor treats her after she was taken ill with suspected food poisoning in the Hassan Sham U2 camp for displaced people east of Mosul, Iraq, June 13, 2017. (AP/Balint Szlanko)
June 13, 2017, 5:21 pm
Mass food poisoning kills 2, sickens 800 at Iraqi refugee camp
Saudi Arabian state television accuses Qatari charity foundation of deliberately providing tainted meals
By Balint Szlanko and Sinan Salaheddin
Iraqi forces are deployed during an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants outside Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
October 18, 2016, 8:20 pm
Iraqi advance on Mosul slows after day of fighting
General says operation ‘going according to schedule’ and ‘very successful,’ as troops ‘mop up’ IS fighters who stayed behind
By Balint Szlanko and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Islamic State group militants took this photo of Yazidi girl Nazdar Murat, as part of a database the militants have put together of Yazidi girls and women they have enslaved. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
July 6, 2016, 11:30 am
Islamic State tightens grip on captives held as sex slaves
Using smartphone apps, dealers auction off women online, have them registered in database to prevent their escape
By Lori Hinnant, Maya Alleruzzo and Balint Szlanko
Skulls remain at the site of a purported mass grave in the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq after it was retaken from Islamic State militants, November 22, 2015. (AP via AP video/File)
November 30, 2015, 6:10 am
Iraqis find 3 more mass graves in formerly IS-held Sinjar
Discovery brings number of burial sites in area to 5 and total number of bodies uncovered to 200-300
By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Balint Szlanko
In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, Syrian refugee children play at a temporary refugee camp in Irbil, northern Iraq. Some 240,000 refugees who fled the fighting in Syria now live in Iraq. Their children are neither citizens of Syria, their families’ country of origin, or of Iraq, the country where they now live. (Seivan M. Salim/AP)
November 29, 2015, 4:14 pm
Thousands of Syrian refugee children left in legal limbo
Children born to parents after they fled origin country cannot get citizenship and have no legal nationality
By Balint Szlanko
Illustrative photo of Kurdish security forces in a tunnel complex under the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq, which was used by Islamic State fighters to move undetected and avoid coalition airstrikes before the town was retaken. (AP via AP video)
November 25, 2015, 12:39 pm
Beneath Iraqi town, Islamic State builds network of tunnels
Devastated Yazidi district home to underground trenches where jihadists hide from airstrikes, store weapons
By Balint Szlanko
A migrant runs after he enters the territory of Hungary by crossing the temporary protection fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border as a Hungarian police car approaches at Roszke, southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, September 7, 2015. (Edvard Molnar/MTI via AP)
September 8, 2015, 7:26 pm
Migrants pour into Hungary as work on fence speeds up
Authorities rush to close border that has become the gateway to Europe for thousands of asylum-seekers
By Balint Szlanko and Pablo Gorondi
A firefighter dismantles a roof to extinguish a building on fire after shelling between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian government in Artemivsk, Ukraine, February 14, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Petr David Josek)
February 15, 2015, 9:55 am
Both sides claim violations after Ukraine ceasefire starts
US State Department says Russia deployed large numbers of artillery and rocket launchers in country
By PETER LEONARD and Balint Szlanko
Ukraine's President-elect Petro Poroshenko, right, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, second left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, applaud during the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day in Ouistreham, western France, Friday, June 6, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
June 30, 2014, 9:37 pm
Ukraine’s leader talks with Putin, Merkel on peace
Despite announcement of ceasefire by President Poroshenko, rebels in east have not put down their weapons
By David McHugh and Balint Szlanko
A man says goodbye to his relatives as they prepare to cross the border into Russia at the Ukrainian-Russian border checkpoint in Izvaryne, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine Thursday, June 26, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
June 27, 2014, 10:18 am
Germany eases immigration for Ukrainian Jews
Thousands of citizens flee for Russia; truce nears end
By Balint Szlanko
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