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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Iraq, with areas in yellow controlled by Kurdish forces (undefined border). Map from iStock; first created on Sept. 21, 2017. ... the connectors among Iraq’s many religious and ethnic divides.

Yet the partition solution for Iraq reverts to the older, ethnic concept of statehood that history has left behind. Western clamouring to apply these regressive frameworks to Iraq and Syria today are ...

Map of Sykes–Picot Agreement. Royal Geographical Society, 1910-15. Signed by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, 8 May 1916. Public Domain. Syria and Iraq are no more. They have ceased to be ...