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Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

People celebrate in Damascus on Tuesday after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ... would bring all border crossings with Iraq and Turkiye, airports and oil fields in the northeast under ...

Talks to restart Kurdish oil exports through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline have hit a snag as a lack of clarity over payments and ...

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the ...

Rapper Saman Yasin was imprisoned and says he was tortured for his involvement in anti-regime protests in Iran. Now, speaking ...

BP had stalled plans for Kirkuk for years citing risks of political instability in the province claimed by Iraq’s autonomous ...

By looking at the shift in the balance of power, the author explains the potential geopolitical risk if Iraq walks away from ...

Mohammed Hussein Mohammedie was just 19 when he left Iraq and attempted the perilous English Channel crossing in November ...

Globally, the climate crisis is also a human rights crisis. Dealing with environmental degradation and the climate crisis in ...

Libya is extremely perilous for refugees and migrants, who face widespread abuses—especially in militia-run detention centers ...