History
A photograph from Kurdistan in the 1940s. (Photo: Anthony Kersting)
Zakho’s historic Delal Bridge. (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour/K24)
Khanaqin town, Kurdistan Region. (Photo: FB)
Abdulamer Waly wearing a traditional Kurdish outfit. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Masoud Barzani, former president of the Kurdistan Region and leader of the KDP. (Photo: Archive)
Mullah Mustafa Barzani (on horseback) is pictured among a group of Peshmerga fighters. (Photo: Archive)
Prominent Kurdish figure and former Iraqi judge Zakia Ismail Hakki. (Photo: Archive)
The aftermath of the deadly bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Aug. 19, 2003. (Photo: UN)
Hadye, a Yezidi woman from Sinjar, recalled her kidnapping by ISIS in August 2014. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Photo: Archive
The mound of Gird-i Dasht, on the Soran plain, likely held a fortress in the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Islamic periods. (Photo: Yadgar Ismail)
Ruins of the Dween citadal near Shaqlawa, in the Kurdistan Region's Erbil province. (Photo: Levi Meir Clancy)
The interior of Shanidar cave, at the foothills of the Baradost Mountains in Kurdistan (Photo: Mohamad Dargalayi)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (L), Pope Francis (C), Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani. (Photo: Archive)
Mustafa Barzani in the Kurdistan Region, spring 1965. (Photo: William Carter/Stanford Special Collections and University Archives)
Bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers in Ramla said. (Photo: Avi Levin, Ilan Theiler/Sackler Faculty of Medicine/Tel Aviv University)