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Political repression has broadly increased in Iraqi Kurdistan, with innocent civilians repeatedly gunned down for protesting against corruption and unemployment rates. Until the ruling parties hold their own to account, this trend is set to continue.
Last month’s fighting in Sinjar that has once again displaced Iraq’s Yazidis into the Kurdistan region has left the ethnoreligious minority in a glaring state of limbo facing an ever more threatened existence.
After a transgender woman was killed by her own brother in Iraqi Kurdistan, LGBTQ+ activists argue that the Kurdish authorities are ultimately complicit in the crime, and responsible for the surge of transphobic violence in the region.
The refugee crisis at the EU-Belarus border has brought along with it harrowing stories of loss and despair. Many of the hundreds of families are from Iraqi Kurdistan. After multiple pleas, one child amputee has been lucky enough to be given asylum.
Assyrian businesses in Iraqi Kurdistan are facing 'discriminatory' taxes, with community leaders denouncing a history of 'anti-Christian policies' in the tribal region, reports Adam Lucente.
Joyful family reunions will happen across northeast Syria this Eid as relations who have been estranged from each other for years are able to get together as northeast Syria has been allowing Syrian refugees with European residency to enter. Â
A group of 19 Palestinian hikers have one eye on the peak of one of the world’s highest mountains, and the other on justice for deported Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri.
Decades of conflict have left a toxic legacy in Iraq and the healthcare system in shambles. Faced with rampant rates of heart defects at birth, Iraqi doctors struggle to treat infants in need of life-saving surgery.
This year, the ancient festival of Nowruz which is widely celebrated in Iran and elsewhere, overlaps with the start of Ramadan, impacting some of the traditional customs of the holiday as many are obliged to reconcile the two major events.
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, °®Âþµº discovers how disabled Syrian Kurds seeking refuge in Iraq are greeted with hostility by Iraqi authorities, the Kurdish Regional Government and worrying indifference from the UNHCR.