In the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Nowruz celebrations — honoring the arrival of spring — are a fundamental ...

They fled Iran as children and now, living in Iraq as adults, they express guarded hope that the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran will weaken the theocracy that forced them into exile decades ago. Behind ...

NIA arrests Matthew VanDyke and foreign nationals over alleged insurgent links, drone training, and illegal cross-border ...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had arrested seven foreign nationals, six Ukrainians and one American for allegedly ...

Volunteers clean debris from a residential building damaged when a nearby police station was hit Friday in a U.S.-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 15, 2026. Photos from the ground as the ...

Kurdish filmmaker Rojhilat Aksoy is facing trial in Turkey on charges of "publicly insulting the Turkish nation and state institutions" after organizing a screening of the animated documentary film ...

Beyond these areas, several ’American bases throughout the region’ were also struck during this stage of the conflict, here ...

A FEW years ago, while filming a television documentary in northern Iraq, I visited the respective mountain and desert bases of two armed groups ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan following explosions as air defense systems carried out ...

Iran struck separatist group positions in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Iranian state media reported the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as saying. If the groups make any move against Iran’s ...

March 5 (Reuters) - A drone attack struck an oilfield operated by U.S. firm HKN Energy in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Thursday, causing a fire ‌and halting production, security sources and an oilfield ...