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“Once upon a time,” begins any good fairy tale. Though it too begins with this simple phrase, “Mothering Sunday” is no such fairy tale.

ISIS bride Shamima Begum and revealed that she was paid a 'wage' from the evil terror group.Ex British Army squaddie Alan Duncan, from Elgin, Moray, has been in Iraq and Syria making a documentary on the terror group and the trail of destruction they left in the Middle East.The 53-year-old, who had previously fought with the Kurdish Peshmerga against the group, secured an interview with Dutch man Yago Riedijk who married Begum in the Caliphate.Alan spoke to multiple fighters as part of his

Ed Meza @edmezavarAs a feminist filmmaker, Antonia Kilian was inspired to travel to northern Syria after forces of the Kurdish autonomous region known as Rojava liberated the city of Minbij from ISIS militants.It was in Minbij that Kilian met Hala, a young Arab woman who had fled her conservative family and the prospects of a forced marriage and found safety and emancipation at a Rojavan military academy, where she trained to become a soldier in the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) — part of the

direct to your inboxMore than 100 people who had previously refused or ignored the coronavirus vaccine offer have now had the jab - after being contacted in their mother tongue.A multilingual team called dozens of people of Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in south Manchester to answer questions and “debunk vaccination myths”.The volunteers - translating into Urdu, Punjabi, Kurdish, Arabic and Bengali - rang people identified by GPs at Ladybarn Group Practice, Al-Shifa Medical Centre

EXCLUSIVE: Joel David Moore and Rishi Bajaj’s Balcony 9 is teaming with Pop Front Pictures for Stefan vs. ISIS, a feature film that has script from C.C. Kilpatrick and Zach Stentz.

For the students at a remote boarding school for Kurdish boys, survival is a matter of course, particularly during the frigid depths of winter. The meals are meager, the heating doesn’t work, and even the principal’s car won’t start.

Keeley Hawes says her expectations “weren’t particularly high” regarding viewer interest in her two-part TV movie “Honour,” which premiered last fall on ITV in the UK.“It wasn’t a mainstream subject and not something many people knew about,” Hawes, 44, says of “Honour,” which chronicles the 2006 murder of a young British-Iraqi Kurdish woman, Banaz Mahmod, by members of her own family, based in southwest London. The 95-minute movie, written by Gwyneth Hughes, makes its US premiere Feb.

Kurdish community to ignore Covid-19 conspiracy theories that are spreading “out of control”.Shakha Sattar has launched a campaign to get more people from his community to “get the jab, save a life” while combating myths about the vaccines.Shakha said the Kurdish community - Christian and Muslim - had been blighted by myths - debunked at numerous times by various sources - that the vaccine contained animal products that make it non-permissible religiously.

Jessica Kiang Mahmud is on his cellphone and he can’t get through. It’s the first image in Hogar Hirori’s startling “Sabaya,” an intense, deeply embedded documentary following the painstaking and perilous rescue of Yazidi women (a Kurdish religious minority), from enslavement by ISIS, aka Daesh.

Gianfranco Rosi waited three years to get the shot. It's a short scene in Notturno, Rosi's new documentary, which is Italy's submission for the 93rd Academy Awards in the best international feature category, as well as a best documentary feature contender.

Mother-daughter duo Hilary and Chelsea Clinton are taking on a new project!

The Tommy Tiernan Show has become one of the most loved talk shows on Saturday night TV due to its honest and open conversations with inspirational guests.

mum and her newborn baby were left fighting for their lives after they both developed a deadly infection during a traumatic labour. Sophie Goudie, 21, and her son Ledwan contracted sepsis after Ledwan became distressed in the womb forcing medics to deliver him via emergency C-section.

Also Read: 'Notturno' Film Review: Middle East Doc Finds Poetry in 'Rubble and Darkness'Rosi’s “Notturno” was filmed along the rattled borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon.

Also Read: 'Notturno' Film Review: Middle East Doc Finds Poetry in 'Rubble and Darkness'“Notturno” documents refugees from conflicts across the Middle East, with footage shot over the course of three years along the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon.

Peter White Television EditorMichael Enright is a British-born actor who had roles in movies including Pirates of the Caribbean and TV series such as CSI and Castle. He abandoned his Hollywood career to become a volunteer warrior fighting ISIS in Syria and after a tour of duty with the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit, he unsuccessfully attempted to get back into the U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Match Factory has announced a slew of sales on Italian director Gianfranco Rosi’s “Notturno,” which has been making the rounds at top fests such as Venice, Toronto and New York.The deals were announced as Rome’s Oct.

Composed of a series of striking tableaux, Gianfranco Rosi’s contemplative documentary, “Notturno,” mines the intergenerational conflict on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentGianfranco Rosi’s “Notturno” was shot over three years along the rattled borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon in the director’s signature observational – but also empathetic – style. The impressionistic doc captures people who have long been contending with the ravages of war and terror, most recently inflicted by ISIS.

Film at Lincoln Center has announced the main slate lineup for the 2020 New York Film Festival, set to run over an extended period, from Sept. 17-Oct.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineThe New York Film Festival unveiled the main slate for its 58th edition on Thursday.This year’s selections showcases titles from 19 different countries and spotlights both emerging and veteran talent.

Brandon Choe Photo EditorHulu’s No Man’s Land tells the story of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed-to-be-dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, piece by piece, Antoine ends up joining forces with ISIS’ biggest nightmare – a unit of Kurdish female fighters – and travels with them in ISIS occupied territory.

Also Read: Selena Gomez Joins Martin Short, Steve Martin Comedy 'Only Murders in the Building' at HuluFeldman explained that the shouting sounds she described were like a battle cry to let the men know they were being hunted by women.“When they hear the sound and when they see the colorful scarves and they know what women are shooting at them, they sometimes just freak out and run away,” she said.

hereOr to like her Facebook page and keep up to with the latest news, click hereHere's the link to the M.E.N's main Facebook page where we share our latest stories.Within weeks of Turkey expelling the Kurds, Daniel Burkewas arrested on suspicion of new terror offences in Folkstone.“I’m not a terrorist; you know I am not a terrorist," he told officers.

hereProsecutors had alleged Mr Burke had repeatedly shown a desire to leave the UK to return to Syria in order to fight for Kurdish militia.He was charged with three terror offences, including helping Daniel Newey, another British man who had allegedly gone to Syria last year.A hearing at the Old Bailey also heard that charges against Mr Newey’s father Paul, 49, and brother, Sam, 19, from Solihull in the West Midlands, who were both accused of helping him, had also been dropped.Prosecuting,

hereThe demonstrator, who had been protesting about Turkish action against Kurdish rebels, ran into the road outside the gates to Parliament.This forced the lead vehicles in the convoy – a police motorbike and the Prime Minister’s Jaguar – to stop, with a support vehicle running into the back of the luxury saloon carrying Mr Johnson.The vehicles drove off shortly afterwards in the direction of Downing Street, with a large dent visible on the rear of the Jaguar.Downing Street said there were no

Kurdish rebels, ran into the road outside the gates to Parliament in front of the convoy. This forced the lead vehicles in the convoy - a police motorbike and the Prime Minister's Jaguar - to stop, with a support vehicle running into the back of the luxury saloon carrying the Prime Minister.

By David Gutnik