The Khidr Elias festival unites Yazidis, Turkmen, and Arabs in Iraq, celebrating the transition from winter to spring.

Iraq's first national census since 1997, begun on November 20, has rekindled ethnic tensions across the fractured country, as Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen groups demand the count be suspended over ...

In addition to the loss of its Jewish citizens, forensic accounting work reveals that assets, institutions and property seized from Jews in Iraq total over $34 billion by today ’ s valuation.

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As the water disappears, so too does a 5,000-year-old culture. Water buffalo gently glide through shallow water canals that snake throughout Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian Marshes, their black ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.