The Islamic Republic has a history of targeting minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds, when it feels threatened.

The UK is seeing a top to bottom shake-up of security as Keir Starmer warns we face growing 'menace' from hostile states, ...

What Iranians need now is a government that invests in their welfare, respects human rights, and allows free expression, a ...

Iran is predominantly Shia Muslim, making up about 90 percent of the population, while Sunni Muslims and other Muslim sects ...

Entire communities are at risk of being wiped off the map of Iraq. We interviewed hundreds of witnesses, survivors, and victims, including the families of those who were killed or abducted, and many ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion.

NATHUMIYA, Iraq -- With Saddam Hussein's regime gone, Iraq's long-oppressed ethnic Kurds are redrawing the map of Iraqi Kurdistan with a vengeance. With the help of armed Kurdish militias, they ...

“Syria’s Christian population has declined from 1.7 million in 2011 to below 450,000; in Iraq ethnic cleansing and genocide has reduced the ancient Christian population from 1.5 million in ...

The result, Biden said, could end civil war in Iraq and bring about the relative peace enjoyed in Bosnia after power in the country was divided along ethnic lines in the Dayton agreement.

If you can’t point to Kurdistan on a map, you’re not alone: It’s not a sovereign country. But for Kurds, an ethnic group of roughly 30 million people, it is very real indeed. Nestled on the ...