It was a hot day in June 2018. We marched past fruit trees and reached the meeting point, where he sat under a large walnut tree with three other guerrillas. We later learned that he had chosen this ...

The September 16, 2022, death of Mahsa Amini in police custody sparked massive protests and a deadly crackdown by the Iranian regime. But three years later, Iranian society has witnessed ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish leaders on Thursday conveyed messages of unity and strength on the 64th anniversary of the September Revolution, a Kurdish revolt against the Iraqi government. Known ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 while doing research there has been freed and turned over to U.S. authorities, her family and officials said ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the release of Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023. While ...

FILE - In this Sept., 2018 selfie image provided by Emma Tsurkov, right, she and Elizabeth Tsurkov are shown in Santa Clara Valley, Calif. WASHINGTON (AP) — A Princeton University graduate student who ...

Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country's largest reservoir declined, an antiquities official said Saturday. The tombs, believed to be ...

Aug 23 (Reuters) - Hunt Oil has resumed operations in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, a company spokesperson said on Friday, nearly a month after a drone attack struck an oilfield the U.S.

Peter J. Brown receives funding from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Written accounts tell the story of the Zanj rebellion – a slave revolt that took place in the late 9th century in southern Iraq. Some of ...