Authorities have suspended water distribution in the district of Koya east of Erbil, after the detection of crude oil contamination in the Lesser Zab River, affecting over 100,000 people, local ...

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WASHINGTON/BEIRUT - The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions that it wants Damascus to fulfill in exchange for ...

In Syria, many Kurds celebrated Nowruz in secret under Assad. With him gone, Kurdish people are throwing their biggest spring equinox party in decades. But some still fear for their safety.