How The Washington Post Works With Its Foreign Correspondents to Report Via Social Media

Last February, the Iraqi government lifted Baghdad’s nighttime curfew, which was established by American forces when they invaded the country in 2003. After more than a decade, Baghdad’s night life was coming back.

Liz Sly, The Washington Post’s Beirut bureau chief, traveled to the Iraqi capital and reported on how the city was coming to life after dark. Liquor stores and nightclubs popped up, a new mall attracted families, and Sly wrote that “a pink neon palace called the Barbie Clinic pampers women with beauty treatments late into the evening.”