Several Explosions Heard in Erbil as Air Defenses Activated

History

The aftermath of the deadly bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Aug. 19, 2003. (Photo: UN)

Iraq

The Canal Hotel bombing: A bloody history for the UN mission in Iraq, 18 years ago

Hadye, a Yezidi woman from Sinjar, recalled her kidnapping by ISIS in August 2014. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Iraq

VIDEO: A Yezidi survivor of ISIS captivity

Photo: Archive

Kurdistan

On anniversary of Barzani massacre, Kurdistan Region demands compensation from Baghdad

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)

Kurdistan

Gird-i Dasht: The site of one of Kurdistan’s oldest settlements has stories to tell

Ruins of the Dween citadal near Shaqlawa, in the Kurdistan Region's Erbil province. (Photo: Levi Meir Clancy)

Kurdistan

Empires have risen and fallen from Kurdistan’s Dween Citadel, castle of emirs

The interior of Shanidar cave, at the foothills of the Baradost Mountains in Kurdistan (Photo: Mohamad Dargalayi)

Kurdistan

Neanderthals of Kurdistan key to more discoveries about early humans

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (L), Pope Francis (C), Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

The roots of coexistence and religious tolerance in Kurdistan

Mustafa Barzani in the Kurdistan Region, spring 1965. (Photo: William Carter/Stanford Special Collections and University Archives)

Kurdistan

The exodus of Mustafa Barzani and his companions to the Soviet Union kept Kurdish freedom alive

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)

Middle East

'New type of early human' found in Israel

One of the ancient structures found in Tall Duhaila in southern Iraq. (Photo: Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Iraq

Russian archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old city in southern Iraq

Kurdish black goats in Delzyan, Soran region, 2016. (Photo: Yadgar Ismail)

Kurdistan

Indigenous people in Kurdistan were first to domesticate goats more than 10,000 years ago, new study finds

The mass graves including Badush were discovered about three and a half years after the defeat of ISIS. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obaidi/AFP)

Iraq

Authorities in Iraq's Nineveh exhume victims' remains at Badush mass grave

Pair of shoes belonging to a Kurdish child who was buried with his family and dozens of citizens 38 years ago in a mass grave in Al-Muthanna province. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Iraq

Mass grave discovered in Iraq’s disputed Khanaqin

Operation Provide Comfort. Lieutenant General John M. Shalikashvili, Commander, Joint Task Force, greets Kurdish citizens at Iskiveren, June 6, 1991. (Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy)

Kurdistan

Masoud Barzani to speak about Operation Provide Comfort’s 30th anniversary in KRG-sponsored webinar

Qaladze city in the aftermath of the bombing. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani recalls ‘blatant crime’ on anniversary of Qaladze massacres

The newspaper “Kurdistan” and its founder Miqdad Madhad Badirkhan. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Kurdish Journalism Day: ‘Kurdistan’ newspaper’s legacy lives on 123 years later