History
Hundreds of people carrying fiery torches climb up the Kale mountaintop, located in Akre, a town in Kurdistan Region's Duhok province popularly referred to as the capital of Newroz, the Kurdish New Year. (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg)
The exhibition '30 years from the Big Kurdish Exodus' will be held in Madrid, Spain, Nov. 10-28. (Photo: Maria Sydykbaeva)
Dukan Dam in Sulaimani province, Apr. 2, 2019. (Photo: AFP)
The Derbendikhan Dam in Sulaimani province. (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour/K24)
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)