This multi-award-winning film follows a medic through five years of upheaval after US troops withdrew from Iraq.

​Nori Sharif is a father who worked at the local hospital in the war-torn Jalawla city in Diyala province, central Iraq.

When US troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011, Nori started to film the stories of survivors and their hopes for a better future.
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As conflicts continued to unfold between different Iraqi militias, the civilian population fled Jalawla, accompanied by most of the hospital staff. Nori was one of the few who remained.

Kurdish history has been one of loss and betrayal over the last century. Having a long and rich history, Kurds luck began to take a turn for the worse after the collapse of the Ottoman empire.

Despite this signalling the beginning of Kurdish independence claims, their tumultuous history was just beginning.

FRB examines how this unravelled: 

Even before the oil wealth of Kirkuk was discovered, the northern city stood out as Iraq’s most coveted. It’s history aligns with Jerusalem’s, a symbolic capital that multiple group’s lay claim to.

​After oil was struck, claims over the city multiplied as did incidents of naked violence targeting certain ethnic components. FRB’s latest feature takes viewers on a journey through Kirkuk’s troubled history.
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Arabic calligraphy is an ancient art whose roots stretch back to Baghdad under the Abbasid Empire. It is out of modern day Iraq that some of the earliest Arabic scripts emerged. Many of these remain widely practised until the present day. The art has always occupied an important place in Iraq’s artistic scene - but that was before 2003. FRB follows two Iraqi calligraphers both of whom still practise the art away from their native Iraq. This is their story:

​Diyala, east of Iraq, has seen a resurgence of sectarian motivated crimes at the hands of government backed militias. Residents, at least those that remain, live in an uncertain climate where death is always near.

Tensions continue to flare as militias, belonging to the popular mobilisation forces, unleash their reign of terror over the province.

The scene of a recent attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran provoked memories of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, in which Iranian students stormed America’s embassy, and held 52 hostages for 444 days.

In this video package, Al Arabiya television revisits the event that shook America following the rise of Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini:

Source http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2016/01/04/Iran-long-history-of-attacking-embassies.html

​January 6 marks national Iraqi armed forces day, which for many symbolises historic military successes, sovereignty and independence.

FRB looks back at the history of the Iraqi army on the 95th anniversary of its formation: