ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church Mor Ignatius Aphrem II said that he met with the president of the Kurdistan Region on Friday to get some advice about developments ...

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

A pressing and persistent issue has been brought to light by the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU): The excessive number of ...

Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

Today, he is the head of the monastery, which is located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. As well as Fr. Petzold--now an ordained priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church--the ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

A historic church has reached a milestone as a center of worship and ... Many Assyrian Christians migrated from Iraq and Iran because of political turmoil in the second half of the 20th century.

German theologian and journalist Matthias Kopp -- spokesman for the German Bishops' Conference and a consultant to the ...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...