Middle East and North Africa
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Lorenz Haase from the eastern German city of Dresden says the girl arrested in Iraq last week is 16-year-old Linda Wenzel
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Wenzel disappeared from her home near Dresden last year and is believed to have been fighting for Islamic State in Iraq
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Wildfires in California, the Iraqi forces’ victory in Mosul, the Tour de France and protests in Caracas – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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Open door: Why did the Guardian give Turkey’s president space to lay claim to the credentials of a democrat?
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Three Israelis stabbed to death in West Bank settlement after three Palestinians killed as row over highly sensitive holy site erupts
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Agency believes the fighters could have been trained to attack Europe as revenge for military defeat in Middle East
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Their families have been killed, they live in hiding, but a brave group of Syrians continue to defy Islamic State by reporting its atrocities to the world. The director of a new documentary explains how he told their shocking stories
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US secretary of state urges countries to take positive action and says efforts to isolate Qatar are negatively affecting its citizens
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Mike Pompeo describes the US-Russia relationship as complicated but hopes there will be areas where they can cooperate
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Official documents that include details of deep cuts to police numbers published too late to be scrutinised by MPs
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Editorial: There is growing evidence of abuses against suspected Islamic State members and their families. They will cost Iraq dear
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Online clips purportedly show prince pointing rifle towards man bleeding from head and pleading
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Charities claim failure to blacklist Saudi-led coalition over bombings in which children were killed or injured would establish ‘dangerous precedent’
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President suspends largely unsuccessful initiative aimed at equipping and training moderate rebels to fight Bashar al-Assad
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Band play in Tel Aviv after calls from protesters and campaigners who urged group to join cultural boycott of country
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German authorities urgently investigate if girl shown in footage is Linda Wenzel, who vanished from Saxony home last year
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Religious police begin inquiry but woman says she didn’t post Snapchat video herself of visit to Ushaqir in skirt and crop top, without veil
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