The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed on Thursday two attacks in northern Iraq that wounded five Iraqi Kurdish security personnel earlier this week. The attacks occurred on Monday and ...

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and around the globe for International Workers’ Day or May Day, with ...

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham aims to establish a Salafi regime in Damascus, opposed by Syria's minorities, says Kurdish leader.

DAMASCUS—Syria’s new leaders have to figure out what to do with thousands of foreign fighters in their ranks, whom many in the country fear and suspect were involved in a recent wave of ethnic ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Region’s Council of Ministers said on Wednesday that it has met its obligations for ...

Iraq's buffalo population has dramatically decreased due to severe droughts affecting the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, endangering the livelihoods of many farmers. Factors such as climate change, ...

Media rights activist Baris Altintas tells BIRN that Joakim Medin’s arrest on charges of terrorism and insulting the ...

This film reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq. Its campaign against the militant PKK group has killed Iraqi ...

Sergele is now in danger of being dragged into what's known locally as the "Forbidden Zone" - a large strip of land in ...

Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the government ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), who is the chief architect of the terror-free ...

With US withdrawal looming, both powers are testing a fragile detente with competing visions of Damascus's future ...