Now-frequent dust storms are just one sign of the man-made damage that has taken the country from Middle East breadbasket to dust bowl, they say.
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It doesn’t happen much in the Arab world, but a coach here decided in January to start an all-female wrestling team, the first ever in Iraq
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OUR dinner — a six-plus-pound common carp — came out of a murky pool and landed with a wet slap on a bare concrete floor, exposed to the dusty night air except for a crude awning of corrugated metal
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It was achievement enough that the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra managed to survive the darkest days of the war, when it struggled for supplies and electricity
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A giant dust storm that has raged through Iraq and other Middle East countries for more than a week has been imaged by satellite.
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