By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they plead...
By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they plead...
When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they pleaded with the 28-year-old American to reconsider. Iraq has seen almost non-stop turmoil for decades, from an eight-year war with Iran in the 80s, to the first Gulf war in the 90s and heavy sanctions, the 2003 U.S. invasion, years of bloody sectarian warfare and then conflict with Islamic State militants. The situation, however, has gradually improved since Islamic State's territorial defeat in 2017, with blast walls coming down and cranes going up in Baghdad and other cities as they turn to construction and find a new sense of normalcy.
By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they plead...
By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they plead...
By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they plead...
By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they plead...
By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they plead...
By Timour Azhari, Maher Nazeh and Ahmed Saeed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they plead...
When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they pleaded with the 28-year-old American to reconsider. "I got a text from my grandma for the first time in five years saying - being your grandmother and to respect me - I would appreciate if you don't go. I got crying phone calls from my mum," said Nemec, a warehouse supervisor from Reno, Nevada. He decided to go anyway, but understood his family's concerns.