BBC World Service investigation reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq, where a vast area is known to locals as ...

Unsettled weather has returned to northern Iraq and Syria, bringing sandstorms and thunder. An orange haze lingered over ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed on Thursday two attacks in northern Iraq that wounded five Iraqi Kurdish security personnel earlier this week. The attacks occurred on Monday and ...

Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.

Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it.” Second, I commanded one of the key initiatives that informed the WPS strategy and ...

Five Iraqi security personnel were wounded in two drone attacks in northern Iraq in less than 48 hours, authorities in the ...

Cooking in her simple, rural kitchen, 14-year-old Kovan froze as she heard panic breaking out all around her. The peaceful life of the schoolgirl, who had grown up in a loving family as part of ...

Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces described the attack as ‘one of the deadliest’ against it in a while.

John Simpson, in discussion with the BBC’s unparalleled range of experts across the world, analyses the role Donald Trump played in the Liberal Party’s election victory in Canada, looks at the extent ...

More than 90 Yazidi families have returned to Shingal (Sinjar), their homeland in northern Iraq, the country’s migration ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have rescued two Yazidi men from the grip of the Islamic State (ISIS) after ...

Credit: AP/Hadi Mizban Rassam had spent years displaced in Irbil, the seat of northern Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, but was among the first Christians to return to Mosul, where he lives ...