For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

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

and then to be part of the armed forces under the responsibility of the government," Hussein said. Iraq's balancing act has been tested by Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups' attacks on Israel and on ...