Iraqi Kurdish people-smuggler Twana Jamal, France, 2016. Photo: BBC Iraqi Kurdish people-smuggler earned up to £100,000 a week for transporting...

Bafel Talabani, President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), right, with Shaswar Abdulwahid, leader of the New Generation Movement...

Police escort Serhii K. from a helicopter before a hearing with the German Federal Public Prosecutor in Karlsruhe, Germany, November...

A controversial Islamic Salafi preacher Abdul Latif Ahmed Mustafa, also known as Abdullatif Salafi. He is the leader of the...

Hoshyar Zebari, senior KDP official, Iraq's former finance minister and Massoud Barzani's uncle, November 18, 2025. Photo: MEPS forum/X. ERBIL,—...

Thousands of people gathered in the main Kurdish city of Amed (Diyarbakir) in Turkish Kurdistan, the Kurdish region in southeastern...

Iraqi MP Ziyad al-Janabi was reportedly arrested in Erbil and transferred to authorities in Baghdad in 2026. Photo: INA BAGHDAD,—...

Russian soldiers in the former Armenian village of Sheykhalan, 1915. Photo: Creative Commons/ wikipedia. TEL AVIV,— Israel's government unanimously approved...

Iraq's Akam Hashim looks dejected after the match with Senegal, Toronto, Canada, June 26, 2026. Photo: Reuters The World Cup...

Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a doctor from Saudi Arabia was sentenced to life in prison in Germany on June 26, 2026 for...