Five Ten TwentyFeb 281 minMines and MosulMine clearance south of Mosul, 2016 © Des Clark Photos They make look innocuous in this photo - but they are devastating and cause...
Five Ten TwentyFeb 101 minWhen I grow up, I will be working in the fields collecting potatoes...Good to see that this NRC produced short film has won an award of excellence at One Reeler, a Los Angeles based film festival. Filmed in...
Five Ten TwentyNov 25, 20211 minWhat's making Iraqi Kurds try to get to Europe?© Des Clark photos Trading in Erbil under the eyes of past and present Kurdish leaders. With many Kurds feeling that a promise of their...
Five Ten TwentyNov 1, 20211 minACAPS’ Global Risk Analysis for October 2021ACAPS’ Global Risk Analysis outlines a number of key contexts where a notable deterioration in a particular crisis may occur within the...
Five Ten TwentyOct 15, 20211 minHow dire is the humanitarian and economic situation in Afghanistan?© Des Clark photos Two months after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the country is grappling with twin economic and humanitarian...
Five Ten TwentyOct 4, 20212 minIraq votes on 10-10 but don't hold your breath...© Des Clark photos Iraq votes this coming Sunday, 10th of October but few are expecting any significant changes as a result to their...
Five Ten TwentySep 16, 20211 minAfghanistan needs international support. But what kind?Before the fall of Kabul and the chaos in HKIA, Kabul, Afghanistan © Des Clark photos Will the international humanitarian system repeat...
Five Ten TwentyAug 23, 20211 minAfghanistan's neighbours look at Opportunities - as well as Threats..ISW analysis on the Taliban’s swift seizure of Kabul [which] has altered key regional states’ calculus toward Afghanistan. Russia, China,...
Five Ten TwentyAug 6, 20211 minFours years since ISIS & Iraq's Tal Afar is still riven with divisionsThe Sheikh Jawad Al-Sadiq Mosque as seen February 2018 © Des Clark Photos Having visited Iraq's Tal Afar after the re-taking of the city...
Five Ten TwentyJul 12, 20211 minDoes all this (Foreign) Aid bring peace? And if so - to what extent?Damage caused to NGO offices CARE USA and Counterpart International following a Taliban attack in Kabul, May 2019 © DesClark Photos A...
Five Ten TwentyJun 28, 20211 minUnemployment Replaces ISIS as Top Security Concern for Minorities in IraqEmployment opportunities, especially for women, in Mosul, are few and far between.. © DesClarkPhotos 2021 In the summer of 2014, the...
Five Ten TwentyJun 21, 20211 minPolitically sanctioned corruption in Iraq is a key impediment to good governance...Iraqi street wiring representing the political system. Connections. Convoluted. Complicated. Challenging. Corrupting. © DesClark Photos A...
Five Ten TwentyJun 21, 20211 min11 Things to Know: Afghanistan on the Eve of WithdrawalReady to take off and leave Afghanistan.... © DesClark desclark.photos U.S. and NATO troops are rapidly executing President Biden’s...
Five Ten TwentyJun 4, 20211 minA Collapsing Order in IraqWest Mosul June 2021 © DesClark Photos The biggest question now is when the system will collapse completely—and equally important what...
Five Ten TwentyApr 23, 20211 minU.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan: End to an Endless War?The September pullout of US troops will change the calculations of the Afghan negotiating parties and could lead to a recharged civil war...
Five Ten TwentyApr 9, 20211 minThe Hijacking of Democracy: The Role of Political Parties in Iraq...Looking across the Tigris to the unfinished Al-Rahman Mosque, Baghdad © Des Clark 2018 In the eighteen years since the fall of Saddam’s...
Five Ten TwentyApr 2, 20211 minWould a peace deal for Afghanistan actually mean peace - and what does peace mean anyway?The tomb site of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Panjshir, Afghanistan © Des Clark 2020 Serious conflict risks will exist in Afghanistan even after...
Five Ten TwentyMar 26, 20211 minIraq is fragile - not hopeless...The stabilization of the Iraqi state remains strategically important to the United States and worthy of a concerted US policy effort....
Five Ten TwentyMar 1, 20211 minNetworks of Power - The Popular Mobilization Forces and the state in IraqA recently published research paper by Dr Renad Mansour, Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme; Project...
Five Ten TwentyMar 1, 20211 minU.S. troop withdrawal looms over negotiations a year after the historic agreement...On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Taliban agreement, Afghanistan remains unfortunately far away from peace. The historic...