Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

November 3, 1918 – (IRAQ) With the discovery of oil in the Kurdish province of Mosul, British forces occupy ... in northwestern Iraq to escape ISIS, after the group storms Sinjar, a town near ...

Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” [1] Israel must defend itself in both law [2] and strategy ...

Despite its size and the presence of over 80 surrounding villages, the area remains without a functioning hospital, forcing ...

When Helsinki-based writer Hassan Blasim follows the heated debated around migration, he is reminded of a journey he would ...

I can't think of a more relevant and necessary exhibition right now than Wafaa Bilal's survey at the Museum of Contemporary ...

But when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), as these jihadis called themselves, captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, on 10 June after just three days of fighting, the world did notice ...

After seizing Christian communities in Syria, the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is now forcibly suppressing Christianity ... "We have been purged out of Mosul, Nineveh, ...

In June 2014, ISIS launched an all-out offensive in northern and western Iraq, seizing large swathes of territory, including the city of Mosul in Nineveh province, which the group declared as the ...