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A woman sits inside her room in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
April 29, 2020, 2:11 pm
Virus lockdown worsens suffering for Johannesburg beggars
Immigrants with disabilities can’t get money from people on the street due to South Africa’s lockdown, and aren’t eligible for government aid either
By Bram Janssen
In this April 5, 2019 photo, a man is taken for questioning by Iraqi army 20th division soldiers during a raid in Badoush, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
May 13, 2019, 10:37 am
After caliphate’s fall, Islamic State still spreads fear
Human Rights Watch accuses authorities of torturing suspects to extract confessions of belonging to the terrorist group
By Bram Janssen
In this October 12, 2013 file photo, the casket of one of the migrants who died when their boat capsized off in the Canal of Sicily is lifted by crane to an Italian Navy ship at the Lampedusa island harbor. (AP Photo/Mauro Buccarello)
November 1, 2018, 8:57 am
56,800 dead and missing: The hidden toll of migration
AP tally of migrants killed or lost during their journeys finds more than double the number previously stated, highlighting global tragedy
By Lori Hinnant and Bram Janssen
A peshmerga fighter looks out of the entrance of an underground tunnel built by Islamic State fighters, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. (AP/Bram Janssen)
October 19, 2016, 2:37 am
Retaken villages show IS increasingly driven underground
Wrested from control on first day of offensive to reconquer Mosul, Badana offers glimpse into battle ahead
By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Bram Janssen
Ibrahim Mahmoud standing in Baharka refugee camp in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region after fleeing Islamic State militants, January 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
January 14, 2016, 3:21 pm
Palestinian refugee loses new home to IS
Fleeing Islamic State brutality, Ibrahim Mahmoud is on the move seven decades after leaving his home in Haifa
By Bram Janssen
FILE: Kurdish peshmerga fighters detonate a landmine planted by the Islamic State (IS) group fighters on the outskirts of the village of Sinuni in the northern Iraqi district of Sinjar on January 15, 2015, after it was recaptured by Kurdish peshmerga troops. (Safin Hamed/AFP)
November 12, 2015, 9:18 am
Kurds launch offensive to retake IS-held Iraqi town Sinjar
Major objective of attack is to cut off Highway 47, one of Islamic State’s most active supply lines, linking Raqqa and Mosul
By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Bram Janssen
Illustrative: Kurdish security forces prepare combat positions outside the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP)
October 1, 2015, 3:55 am
Iraqi Kurds drive Islamic State out of villages
Peshmerga fighters expand area of control around oil-rich Kirkuk, sending IS fighters fleeing
By Bram Janssen
In this photo released on April 25, 2015 by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, young boys known as the "lion cubs" hold rifles during a parade after graduating from a religious school in Tal Afar, near Mosul, northern Iraq. (Militant website via AP)
July 20, 2015, 6:27 am
In IS training camp, children told: Behead the doll
Captured Yazidi boys forced to convert to Islam, undergo weapons and ‘beheading’ training
By Zeina Karam and Bram Janssen
Islamic State militants kill a man they accused of being a homosexual by throwing him off a building in Syria's northeastern province of Hassakeh, in this verified photo released by a militant website on Jan. 14, 2015. (Militant website via AP)
June 18, 2015, 11:04 am
Inside the Islamic State: Creating a nation of fear
Survivors detail day-to-day life under the caliphate — including frequent beatings, torture and executions
By Lee Keath, Bram Janssen, Vivian Salama and Zeina Karam
In this Monday, April 20, 2015 photo, a Sunni fighter stands on the frontline, just a kilometer away from the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group, in northern Iraq. The Sunni fighters, part of the al-Lehib tribe, are fighting some of their own tribe members who joined the Islamic State group. (Photo credit: AP/Bram Janssen)
April 22, 2015, 3:57 pm
Sunni tribesmen fight their own after breaking with IS group
‘At first we welcomed them, but then they started killing our own people,’ tribal leader says of Islamic State
By Bram Janssen and Sameer N. Yacoub
Illustrative photo of an Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighter firing at Islamic State (IS) positions, on September 9, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JM Lopez)
March 8, 2015, 3:57 pm
Canadian soldier killed in friendly fire incident in Iraq
Kurdish forces say sergeant died after ignoring an order, showing up to the front line unannounced
By Bram Janssen
In this Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 photo, Jordan Matson, 28, right, a former U.S. Army soldier, takes a break with other fighters from the main Kurdish militia, the People's Protection Units, or YPG, in Sinjar, Iraq. (Photo credit: AP/Vivian Salama)
February 5, 2015, 3:39 am
Westerners join Kurds fighting Islamic State in Iraq
Spurred by social media and a sense of duty after the US-led Iraq war, dozens join local militias combatting extremist group
By Vivian Salama and Bram Janssen
Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Angelina Jolie delivers a speech during a press conference in Khanke camp in Dahuk, north of the Kurdistan region, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. (Photo credit: AP/Seivan M. Selim)
January 26, 2015, 6:23 am
Jolie in Iraq, says more needed for Iraq and Syria refugees
Actress, a special envoy for the United Nations Refugee Agency, appeals for urgent funds to assist those affected by war
By Bram Janssen
Nechervan Barzani, prime minister of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, poses during an interview with The Associated Press in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, November 2, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Bram Janssen)
November 2, 2014, 9:49 pm
Peshmerga in Kobani ‘temporarily,’ says Kurdish PM
Nechervan Barzani says fighters will only help in fight against Islamic State, not pursue political goals
By Bram Janssen
Smoke and flames billow following an explosion in the Syrian town of Kobani, October 22, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STRINGER)
October 29, 2014, 5:45 am
Iraqi Kurdish fighters to head to Syria
Peshmerga combatants will cross over through Turkey, in attempt to ward off Islamic State attack on border town of Kobani
By Bram Janssen
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