The regime created the small town between Kirkuk and Sulaimani and named it “Eggplant”. “Saddam’s regime brought Kurdish people here to make them suffer,” said Ali Bazyani, a local historian in Erbil.

The use of nerve agents on the mainly Kurdish town killed up to 5,000 civilians and injured another 10,000. When the attack started some victims tried to protect themselves by taking cover in ...

Iran's judiciary announced on Sunday that the five-year prison sentences for two women journalists, who reported on the death ...

On Tuesday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to voice their anger at what they regard as Turkey’s failure to protect the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from the IS militants.

They had set of from a Kurdish town in the north of Iraq and Mr Lawrie explained that money paid by migrants often ends up in networks such as that led by Majeed. “I really wanted to go after ...

a day after a reported Turkish strike.Journalist Rêbîn Bekir was driving near the Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq on the morning of August 23, when a rocket slammed into his car. The ...

Turkish air and artillery strikes affected a much larger area, including predominantly Kurdish towns and villages to the west and east. Amid growing chaos, US officials said on 13 October that Mr ...

KURDISH peshmerga fighters liberated the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State (Isis)terrorists yesterday after a short offensive. Peshmerga Major Ghazi Ali said thousands of Kurdish militia forces ...

Kurdish forces backed by US-led air strikes have regained control of at least 163 villages around the Syrian town of Kobani after driving back Islamic State militants in the past three weeks, a group ...

Ankara has carried out three military operations against Kurdish forces in northern Syria since 2016, invading key towns near the border such as Afrin, Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain), and Gire Spi (Tal ...