Hayat Tahrir al-Sham aims to establish a Salafi regime in Damascus, opposed by Syria's minorities, says Kurdish leader.

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

For Kurds, the stork (leklek) is a sacred sign of renewal. Its spring return is seen as a blessing, and its presence is ...

Fifty years on, the extrajudicial execution of a key leftist thinker and his comrades during the Shah’s reign continues to ...

According to the PKK’s statement, the group carried out attacks on a Peshmerga base on both Monday and Tuesday, as well as a ...

The sectarian violence involving Islamist factions, security forces and Druze gunmen is another sign of the fragile security ...

Entering Kocho now is like stepping back in time. The buildings which were once family homes, are in ruins. Personal belongings lie among the rubble – shoes, pans and picture frames, the remnants of ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Thursday for two drone attacks in northern Iraq that wounded five Kurdish security personnel earlier this week. The attacks, which ...

The little village at the gateway to the Mizen once again lights up with joy, music, circus, creativity, and - above all else ...

Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...