At the foot of the mountains along Iraq’s border with Iran, a Kurdish family gathers in the village of Gulp, near Halabja, to ...

Halabja Day is solemn by design. It asks people to stop, remember, and face a past that is still painfully close for many ...

Israel came under fire from Human Rights Watch for allegedly using white phosphorus weapons in a civilian area in Lebanon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Halabja routinely marks the atrocities committed against its community, and other Kurdish sites, in 1988Ismael Adnan ...

Kurdish Iraqis who survived the 1988 chemical weapons attack on Halabja and nearby communities have lasting trauma, a new report finds, highlighting the need for long-term support. Some 182,000 Kurds ...

Dr Ibrahim Mohammed is a clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in trauma, somatic symptoms, and psychopathology in conflict-affected populations. He has worked for over a decade with ...

In March 1988, those who fled to Turkey after the Halabja massacre were first settled in tents along the banks of the Tigris River. From this reality, the novel stretches from Halabja to Diyarbakır, ...

Family ties bind us. We invite TV dynasties into the middle of our full houses (upstairs, downstairs) for happy days and good times. Watching married-with-children characters one day at a time becomes ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Halabja declares two days of mourning over the tragic death of two citizens - a ...

The Iraqi government has declared Halabja, a region notorious for one of the worst chemical weapon attacks in history, a new governorate. Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid offered his “warmest ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Nearly half a million people visited Halabja for its annual pomegranate festival that generated 1.7 billion dinars in revenue over the course of three days, officials ...