BADOUSH, Iraq: It was a chilly January evening, and Khadija Abed and her family had just finished supper at their farm when the two men with guns burst into...
MOSUL, Iraq: The three women tensed as their taxi approached the checkpoint manned by Daesh (ISIS) fighters. Everyone in Mosul dreaded checkpoints; you could...
MOSUL, Iraq: After months of fighting, Mosul residents can finally practice their favorite game again at a football pitch in the eastern part of the city –...
QAYYARAH, Iraq: Sabriya Hammad buried her son in a cemetery that was destroyed by the same people who killed him. Sitting on cardboard and surrounded by...
ISTANBUL: A rustic, three story-Arabic bookstore in old Istanbul has become an anchor for many Syrians who have stayed put in Turkey but crave a taste of...
BAHARKA REFUGEE CAMP, Iraq: As a 9-year-old boy, Ibrahim Mahmoud fled his hometown of Haifa on the back of a truck during the 1948 war that attended the...
KAWERGOSK, Iraq: The young Syrian refugees at the Kawergosk refugee camp in northern Iraq have already lost so much – and now they’re losing their...
KIRKUK, Iraq: Like hundreds of elderly men and women from the Iraqi city of Mosul, Hajji Ahmad left in August to participate in the annual hajj pilgrimage in...
SANLIURFA, Turkey: The children were each given a doll and a sword. Then they were lined up, more than 120 of them, and given their next lesson by their ISIS...
IRBIL: Officials say a prominent Iraqi Kurdish commander in the fight against ISIS has been killed in a bombing near the northern city of Kirkuk.The officials...
IRBIL, Iraq: Two years after fleeing from her home in Damascus, 22-year-old Rahaf Abdullah is working at a gleaming mall in Iraq’s Kurdish region, selling...
BAGHDAD: A decade after his first Iraq tour, former U.S. Marine Jamie Lane has returned to the battlefields of the Middle East to fight a still unvanquished...
IRBIL, Iraq: The Canadian government and Kurdish officials are publicly disagreeing over the circumstances of a Canadian soldier's death in a friendly...
IRBIL, Iraq: A spokesman for Kurdish forces in Iraq says a Canadian soldier was killed in a friendly fire incident after he and others ignored an order to...
IRBIL, Iraq: A British citizen fighting alongside Kurdish forces against ISIS has been killed in Syria, a Kurdish commander said Wednesday.Konstandinos Erik...
IRBIL, Iraq: In gunsmith Bahktiyar Sadr-Aldeen’s workshop in this Kurdish city in northern Iraq, every weapon has a story. These days, there are lots of...
KIRKUK, Iraq: Shiite prayers billow from a mosque loudspeaker at a sprawling Iraqi military base on the fringes of the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk as...
SINJAR, Iraq: As Kurdish fighters gathered around a fire in this damp, frigid mountain town in northwestern Iraq, exhausted from battling ISIS militants, a...
SINJAR, Iraq: Kurdish forces in recent weeks have retaken parts of the strategic Iraqi town of Sinjar, whose Yazidi population was driven out in a...
DOHUK, Iraq: Actress Angelina Jolie, the special envoy for the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, appealed Sunday for urgent funding to assist more than...
SHARAF AL-DEEN, Iraq: As thousands of Yazidis fled up the rocky slopes of Mount Sinjar to escape the Islamic State group during its rampage across northern...
BAKUFA, Iraq: An Iraqi Christian militia’s flag is hoisted high over the village of Bakufa in northern Iraq, less than a month after ISIS militants were...
IRBIL, Iraq: Iraqi Kurdish forces have begun receiving training from western allies including the United States as they seek to beef up their capabilities...
IRBIL, Iraq: The United Nations said Monday it was undertaking a mass polio vaccination campaign in Iraq, hoping to reach millions of children as the highly...
DAHUK, Iraq: Tens of thousands from Iraq's minority Yazidi community have fled their homes after Sunni militants captured their towns in the latest...