According to IJsselstein, the region’s relative stability and strong ties with the Netherlands have fueled significant ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Friday for the immediate release of investigative journalists Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwani, alleging that their detention by authorities in Iraqi ...

Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwan, two reporters in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, have been thrown behind bars ...

Hunting trafficking’s Kurdish big boss The mastermind of an international people smuggling network has gone into hiding after ...

ERBIL — The Kurdistan Journalists' Syndicate has strongly condemned the arrest of journalist Bashdar Baziani by Sulaymaniyah security forces, calling the move a violation of press freedoms and legal ...

A case has been filed against Kurdish journalist Diren Yurtsever by the 23rd High Criminal Court, with a potential sentence of one to three years. Yurtsever had previously spent seven months in ...

According to the latest survey, any individual in the Kurdistan Region with a monthly income of less than 137,000 Iraqi dinars (about $100) falls below the poverty line. Economic experts suggest ...

ERBIL — On March 7, 1991, the city of Sulaymaniyah became a key battleground in the Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime, marking a historic turning point in Kurdish resistance.

Winthrop Rodgers is a journalist and analyst based in Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. He focuses on politics, human rights, and political economy.

“It seems they both reached to this conviction now.” Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, is the city closest to the PKK’s headquarters in the Qandil mountains and many ...

Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, is the city closest to the PKK’s headquarters in the Qandil mountains and many locals support the group.

where Turkey also maintains military bases and often carries out ground and air operations against Kurdish militants. In the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, residents sounded cautious after ...