Your vote, your decision will shape the way we govern our country for the next four years. Therefore, it is very necessary ...

Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, gets to me as well but this is more difficult to explain, because the city itself is dusty and ugly. Maybe it's because I only ever go there when news is being ...

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2. Kassem Taher Saleh The 28-year old civil engineer lived in the Iraqi-Kurdish city of Zakho before his family moved to Plauen, Vogtland where he grew up. He is a member of the Green party.

Police took part in raids in 21 provinces, including in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakir Turkish police have detained at least 126 people suspected of links to a banned Kurdish militant group ...

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has questioned the government regarding allegations of criminal gang activities and the police's reluctance to take action against them in ...

a Patriot missile shot one down over Iraqi Kurdistan. Its remains landed in Soran, roughly 60 miles outside the autonomous region’s capital city, Erbil. Several explosions were also heard in ...

Journalist Rabia Önver is facing disinformation charges following a raid on her home after she reported on an alleged criminal gang in the Kurdish-populated eastern city of Hakkari. Önver was not at ...

In a plant nursery in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, hundreds of pine, eucalyptus, olive and pomegranate saplings grow under awnings protecting them from the fierce summer sun.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said last month that one of its top commanders was among nine fighters killed when two helicopters crashed in Iraq in mid-March. They were heading to ...

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