Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac, and other Christians have faced extraordinary brutality in their homeland since even before the 2003 US-lead war. The fourth largest community in Iraq after Arabs ...

Israel has long enjoyed positive relations with Kurdish people in the Middle East. It is part of a partnership between Jews ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Secretary of State of the Vatican, Pietro Parolin, discussed the situation of Christians in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region in meetings with senior Kurdish leaders on Thursday ...

Final results from this month’s vote for the regional parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region show the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The lone Christian minister in the Kurdistan ... Christians,” Lawmakers from the minority quota in the Kurdish and Iraqi parliaments are often criticized for not ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People line up to vote during parliamentary elections of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region ...

Thousands of pro-Kurdish party members, including lawmakers, were jailed on militancy charges in an accompanying crackdown. Kurds make up around a fifth of Turkey's population of 85 million. REUTERS ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The primary competitors are the two dominant Kurdish parties: the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and the ...

Kurdish troops successfully fought pan-Sunni Islamist jihadists such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda-linked groups and were able to build an inclusive model in Rojava in Syria, encouraging multiple ethnic ...

The Kurdish city is diverse, with a large population of Turkmen as well as Arabs and Christians. Officials work at a polling station during Iraq's Kurdistan region parliamentary election ...