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

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The al-Hadba minaret in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2017. UNESCO has been restoring the minaret for years. It was reopened in a ceremony on Wednesday.

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...