U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has recommended that former Iraqi President Barham Salih become the next head of the ...

Former Iraqi president and senior Kurdish statesman Barham Salih, has been selected as the next head of the UN refugee agency, according to reports. Mr Salih's selection as the High Commissioner for ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS ...

After decades of repression, reporters travel freely and publish without censorship, yet threats now come from militias, ...

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Like Marwan, the country is struggling to heal a year after the Assad dynasty’s repressive 50-year reign came to an end ...

The United States inaugurated a massive new consulate compound Wednesday in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s ...

Turkey is about as far from Reno as one can get, situated on the other side of the world, but for one researcher, it’s just as much home as Reno is. Jessie Clark, an associate professor in the ...

The jersey featuring the Kurdish slogan "Koma me bona we" (Amedspor) Amedspor, a football club based in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, has been fined by the Turkish Football Federation ...

A militant Kurdish group end its struggle against Turkey: grieving mothers ask if it was worth the high cost Two Kurdish mothers reckon with what peace could mean after decades of war DIYARBAKIR, ...