Campbell MacDiarmid
Class of 2015
Campbell MacDiarmid is a New Zealand freelance journalist writing about the Middle East from his base in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. Recently, he has reported for USA Today, Al Jazeera, Vice News, Maclean’s magazine, and other outlets.
British lawyer Karim Khan tipped as next ICC chief prosecutor
From the killing fields to exile without hope
Scenes From a Failed Secession
Iraqi federal forces seize oil-rich Kirkuk in shock blow for Kurds
In Iraq’s multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk, this week’s referendum has sparked celebration — and serious discontent
Masoud Barzani: Why It’s Time for Kurdish Independence
As bombs rain, freelancers build their own bunker
Many civilians in Mosul on the brink of starvation
Iraqi security forces storm airport in Isil-held western Mosul
Iraqi police snipers take aim at Mosul ahead of key airport offensive
Mosul University after ISIL: Damaged but defiant
Isis fighters flee western Mosul by boat leaving streets littered with bodies and blood
Iraqi army announces recapture of east Mosul
Mr. Erbil: Kurdish Dandies Start Iraq’s First Fashion Club
Islamic State using drones to drop explosives on civilians and troops advancing on Mosul
Teaching Displaced Iraqis and Syrian Refugees How To Code
Cum arată trupa de death metal care-şi riscă viaţa în Irak
The Battle to Retake Mosul Is Stalemated
Meet the Inspiring Afghan Women Coding Their Way to Prosperity
Can Women Lead the Way in Afghanistan’s Growth in Tech?
Iraqis Sheltering In Mosul Create Fresh Hurdles for Aid Agencies
Clawing Into Mosul, Block by Block
Suicide truck bomb in Iraq kills more than 80
Mosul front: Lost in the desert with the anti-Isis Shia militias of the Popular Mobilization Units
Iraq’s Christians seek autonomous region to build future safe from persecution, as they return to homes and churches ravaged by Isil
Dogged push by Iraqi forces through the mud and blood of Mosul
Isis mortars and coalition air strikes bring death to Mosul civilians from land and sky
ISIS Is Ready For A Long, Bloody Battle To The Death
Operation to drive Isil from Mosul ‘ahead of schedule’
Mosul front: Isis infiltrators sneak behind Iraqi lines as civilians flee jihadi stronghold
Inside the mission to unite a country after ISIS
The Islamic State Just Wants to Watch the World Burn
White Lies Save Lives: Rogue U.S. Medics On Mosul’s Front Line
Iraq’s Elite Soldiers Have Their Sights Set on Mosul
Battle for Mosul Overwhelms Efforts to Shelter Fleeing Civilians
The advance on Mosul begins
Battle for Mosul
Mosul front: Kurdish fighters face Isis death wagons and die-hard snipers in final battle.
ISIS will soon be driven out of Iraq. What comes next?
Iraqi Kurdistan hosts ‘Refugees Got Talent’ competition
Refugees Compete to Code Their Way to Prosperity: If selected for the program, they’ll be trained to work for major tech companies.
HOW AN IRAQI DEATH METAL CONCERT DEFIED RELIGIOUS REPRESSION: “HERE IS NO LOVE, ONLY WAR”
Foreign Fighters, Dreaming Of Battling ISIS, Go Stir Crazy In Iraq
Hard Landings: How to run an international airport with jihadists on the doorstep
Heavy metal in Iraq’s most divided city
American Mennonites Are Going to Iraq — to Fix Windows
The Iraqi Town Where Kurds and Turkmens Shoot Each Other, Not Islamic State
Iraq’s humanitarian workers brace for Mosul influx
Hunting for Truffles in Iraq
HUNTING FOR TRUFFLES IN IRAQ
Iraq Army’s Mosul offensive stalls in face of fierce fighting, desertions
The Fight to Retake Mosul: Inside the Assault on the Islamic State’s Stronghold in Iraq
Kirkuk’s only metal band are defying ISIS in Iraq: Death and metal in a divided state
Inside Taza, the Iraqi Town Gassed by the Islamic State
Iraq’s Last Christian Soldiers
The West’s staunchest ally against ISIS is fighting on empty
The heavy metal bands fighting authority in the Middle East
THE KAHI ABIDES
Isis in Iraq: US to arm two Kurdish brigades ahead of push to take Mosul from Daesh
Lifting the commercial curse on Kurdish film
Iraqis liberated from the Islamic State return to a destroyed Sinjar
Mass graves discovered in Iraq
Iraq: Isis massacre of Yazidi women deemed unworthy sex slaves discovered in liberated Sinjar
Iraq: Inside the scary, gun-toting, Isis-hating Iraqi Kurdish town you’ve never heard of
Retaking Sinjar from ISIL could be a turning point. So why is squabbling slowing the effort down?
Archaeologist Tobin Hartnell’s crusade to uncover the treasures of Iraqi Kurdistan
Journalists fear for freedoms in Iraq’s Kurdish region
Kurds rail against government corruption as protests turn violent in Iraqi Kurdistan
AT THE CHICKEN FARM
Helly Luv and Kurdistan’s fight against terror
Meet the Kurdish fighters mobilising against Tehran
PKK guerrillas: ‘We will stay until war is finished’
Slain Australian fighter Reece Harding hoped not to be prosecuted on return
Slain Australian fighter Reece Harding hoped not to be prosecuted on return
Kurdish fighters’ success against Islamic State makes Turkey nervous
Fleeing Islamic State: ‘We heard them calling takbir’
New UN aid chief demands more Iraq access
Brains for Breakfast in Iraqi Kurdistan
Our forgotten ally
Refugee radio reaches out on Kurdish airwaves
Deady Car Bombing in Erbil
Germany sends more MILAN rockets to thwart ISIS suicide bombers
Kurdish books hot-sellers at Erbil book fair
Sunni Arab refugees escaping ISIS feel trapped in Kurdistan
At Easter services, Iraqi Christians under threat from ISIS consider leaving Middle East
Coalition rolls out battalion-level Peshmerga training
Foreign troops training Kurdish peshmerga fighters encounter language barriers, lack of basic skills
Newroz in Akre: Kurds honor culture of resistance
Hydro diplomacy on the Nile
‘They need to be persuaded they don’t need ISIS’: retaking key Iraqi city of Mosul will be no easy task
New coalition program aims to coordinate Peshmerga trainings
US official to Kurds: human rights cannot be forgotten in war with ISIS
Peshmerga frown on foreign volunteers
Low oil prices force Iraq to pass austerity budget as it struggles to pay soldiers fighting ISIS
Canada cites own federal system as model for Iraq, Kusrdistan
Minister: Canadian demining robots will save ‘many, many lives’
Canada sends robots to Kurdistan to help clear ISIS mines
‘Canadian Peshmerga’ remembers first fight against ISIS
Canadian veteran who joined fight against ISIS struggled to adapt to civilian life after tour in Afghanistan
Suicide bombing kills four people in capital of Kurdish Iraq
