Erbil: A fighter from the Komala Iranian Kurdish opposition group and leftist political party recently told Al Majalla “all the party has left the…

Erbil: Reports started trickling out the evening of 27 August of the “luring” to Hasakah and the arrest of the top Arab leaders of a major military…

Erbil: Following a week’s closure and several people killed in a night of violence, the main road between the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq…

Baghdad: “Because they can more easily control a weakened Afghanistan,” one member of the government security forces at the time claimed in a July…

West Nineveh: “Sinjar is special,” the officer at the checkpoint said, refusing to allow me to continue on to the Yazidi homeland of Sinjar.“You will…

Baghdad: The Islamic holy month of Muharram has started in the Iraqi capital against the backdrop of another authorisation to burn a copy of the…

Baghdad: “Cold water! Cold water!” shout young children darting to and fro in dirty flip-flops, plying small bottles amid the traffic and at dusty…

Baghdad: Clutches of policemen direct traffic under the hot summer sun and mull around near their vehicles in apparent boredom in Inner Karrada, an…

Tarmiyah: An Iraqi Air Force strike reportedly killed several Islamic State (IS) fighters on 17 June in a largely agricultural area less than an hour…

Mosul: It’s a sweltering Friday in this city of well over a million people, while thousands of former residents remain displaced elsewhere and unable…