Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances that will shape the next government. The November elections did not ...

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo opened this week at the Young Vic in the United Kingdom, and runs through January 31. Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer-nominated play about American occupation in Iraq stars ...

Baghdad International Airport reopened Thursday after a 12-hour halt due to bad weather, the transport ministry said. Authorities announced at around 12:30 am (2130 GMT) they had temporarily shut ...

Sixteen years after it was first performed and more than two decades on from the conflict it portrays, the unique, engrossing Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo delivers an unambiguous sense of the ...

Read our review of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, now in performances at the Young Vic to 31 January 2026. Ghosts exist to haunt the living, who before long themselves become ghosts. That’s one way ...

Just when I thought the great Kathryn Hunter had done it all, acting-wise, she plays the ghost of a grouchy tiger looking for God on the burning streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War in 2003. In ...

Directed with a nightmarish, itchy precision by Omar Elerian, this production hit a spot of real-world chaos before it even opened. David Threlfall was set to play the titular beast (a role first ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The tiger (Kathryn Hunter) sits at the front of the stage, exuding big cat boredom and effortless feline ...