Marking 10 years since ISIS swept into Mosul and the towns of the Nineveh Plain ... delving into the roots of Christianity in Iraq, its history dating back nearly 2,000 years, and how Christians ...

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 ...

In Qaraqosh, once Iraq’s largest Christian town ... before, but this Pope did so. And he was very brave to do so. He wanted to visit the city where what happened to us was like a world war ...

October 30, 1918 – (TURKEY) The Armistice of Mudros marks the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. November 3, 1918 – (IRAQ ... night before the Kurdish forces seize the town.

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

in Iraq. The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) serves as an umbrella organisation for all the groups and the People’s Protection Units (YPG), formed in 2012 during the Syrian civil war ...

BRITISH heroes have hit back at "ghastly" JD Vance after Donald Trump's VP has sparked outrage by insulting the UK's 636 war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan ... "The only guy in town with a strategy ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

They're the men no country wants. Locked up and accused of being Islamic State fighters, they're considered a threat to the West and the prospect of peace in the new Syria. "I travelled to Syria ...

Ismail had left his home in rural western Aleppo in 2016, after his father was killed in fighting in the country’s bloody ...

Meanwhile, UN staff are drawing on similar experiences in Mosul, Iraq, and the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Latakia, all decimated by war. UNOPS, a UN agency that ... rubble from Gaza in December 2024, ...