Humanitarian

Migrants, many from Iraq, are held at a camp in the Lithuanian village of Verebiejai, July 11, 2021. (Photo: AP)

Iraq

Iraq to issue temporary passports to its citizens stranded in Lithuania

A picture shows young Iraqis cooking meals during anti-government sit-in in the Iraqi capital Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Iraqi official says suicide rates in 2021 alarming

An Afghan family arrives at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in ChamanAn Afghan family arrives at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman to return back to Afghanistan, August 20, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

Middle East

One in three Afghans at risk of severe or acute hunger: WFP

A healthcare worker checks the temperature of a man inside a health isolation center on the Syrian-Turkish border. (Photo: AP/Anas Alkharboutli)

Syria

Syria's Kobani in need of vaccines to prevent outbreaks: MSF

Migrants, many from Iraq, are held at a camp in the Lithuanian village of Verebiejai, July 11, 2021. (Photo: AP)

Europe

Latvia declares emergency after influx of migrants, mostly from Iraq

Lithuanian border guards use thermo vision devices to control the Lithuania-Belarus border near Adutiskis, June 15, 2021. (Photo: Archive)

Europe

More than 1,500 Iraqis trapped on border of Belarus and Lithuania

Lithuanian soldiers install razor wire on the border with Belarus on July 9. (Photo: Reuters)

Iraq

Iraq arranges flights from Belarus to evacuate stranded citizens

Displaced Iraqis have been forced out of camps making them even more vulnerable. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Iraq estimates cost of ending displacement at $23 billion

Portrait of two children who were burnt alive in the fire caused by Iranian artillery on August 6, 1986. (Photo: Screengrab from a documentary on the massacre/Social media)

Kurdistan

Sirwan Massacre: 35 years since tragedy hits displaced Kurds in Halabja area

Lithuanian border guards build a 550-kilometer barbed wire fence on its border with Belarus. (Photo: Janis Laizans/Reuters)

Iraq

Baghdad to facilitate repatriation of Iraqi immigrants stranded on Lithuanian border

Dutch consular officials meet with Kurdistan Region authorities to support a new project to assist the displaced. (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg/Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Dutch finances project to improve integration of displaced in Kurdistan Region

After fleeing from the Yezidi (Ezidi) religious community flee ISIS' attack on the disputed district of Sinjar, families cross into Kurdistan Region, Aug. 14, 2014. (Photo: UNICEF)

Iraq

Few Yezidis have returned to Sinjar since 2014 ISIS takeover, 2,763 remain kidnapped: KRG

In August 2014, thousands of Yezidis were trapped in the Shingal mountains as they tried to escape from the so-called Islamic State. (Photo: Anadolu Agency/Emrah Yorulmaz)

Middle East

Yezidis call for mission to find missing women on 7th anniversary of genocide

Monira Heydari drowned attempting to reach Europe in a boat carrying asylum seekers on July 22, 2021. (Photo: Hengaw).

Europe

Iranian Kurdish asylum-seeker drowns after boat sinks near Greek islands

Zana Ali, 27, speaks to villagers in flood-hit western Germany, July 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Europe

Kurdish ex-refugee repays Germany by helping flood victims

Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas has been imprisoned by the Turkish government since 2016. (Photo: AFP)

Europe

Imprisoned Kurdish opposition leader Demirtas to receive German human rights award