An Islamic militant aligned with the Damascus government watches as thousands of Kurds flee the Sheikh Maqsud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods...

Karwan Gaznay, the spokesperson for PUK Party, Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan, December 2025. Photo: Manish Rai/via iKurd.net Manish Rai | iKurd.net...

A composite image: Barzanis' KDP peshmerga militias, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2014. The so-called Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan are not unified...

General Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces SDF, the de facto army of Syria's autonomous Kurdish...

Kurdistan Region President and KDP Vice President Nechirvan Barzani (left) and his cousin Masrour Barzani, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s caretaker...

Saadi Ahmed Pira, the spokesperson and member of Political Bureau of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK, Iraqi Kurdistan, February 2024. Photo:...

"Peshmerga: A Remarkable Journey from Guerrilla to Soldier" a book by Rai Manish. The book will be launched in Iraqi...

An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Novmber 22, 2005. Photo: Creative Commons/khamenei.ir Manish Rai | iKurd.net I had the opportunity to visit...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations...