Politics

Mohammed al-Halbussi hails from the province of Anbar and is hoping to be re-elected in the October 10 poll (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)

Iraq

Fast-rising politician pushes rebirth of war-scarred Iraqi city

Officials of Iraq's electoral commission undergo a polling day simulation to test run its systems ahead of the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province, Sept. 22, 2021. (Photo: Shwan Mohammed/AFP )

Iraq

Prime Minister Barzani welcomes joint statement by Iraq’s international partners on upcoming elections

Women look after children at the sprawling al-Hol displacement camp in northeastern Syria, Oct. 17, 2019 (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

Syria

German, Danish ISIS-affiliated women and children repatriated from Syria

An Iraqi soldier stands guard in Sinjar (Shingal), in front of a wall with PKK-themed graffiti. (Photo: AP)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region warns that PKK is tightening its grip on Sinjar, urges international action

The ICRC said 31 soldiers were repatriated from both sides of the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. (Photo: ICRC)

Iraq

Red Cross facilitates exchange of soldiers' remains killed on both sides of Iran-Iraq War

The Yezidis' holy temple of Lalish, located in the Kurdistan Region's Duhok province. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani: KRG 'will remain a true and solid defender' of Yezidis

Kabarto displacement camp in Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Erbil says new Iraqi order will make it difficult for those living in displacement camps to vote in election

Cars pass Baghdad's Shorja Market. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Twelve countries, including US, endorse Iraqi elections; Remind Iraqis of all they have done

Supporters of Iraq's Fatah alliance -- which held the second-biggest bloc in parliament -- attend an election rally in Baghdad (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

In Iraq vote, big blocs lurk behind ‘independents’

Officials of Iraq's electoral commission undergo a polling day simulation to test run its systems ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Baghdad, on Sept. 22, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

Voters await Iraqi elections with mixed feelings

Photo: Archive

Iraq

Hundreds of international observers to monitor Iraq's October 10 election

A satellite image of the plant near the city of Karaj (Photo: Google Maps)

Iran

Iran urges UN to condemn Karaj nuclear site 'sabotage'

President Nechirvan Barzani, delivering a speech at a campaign rally in Erbil, Oct. 5, 2021, (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Iraq

Nechirvan Barzani: ‘The next Kirkuk governor must be a Kurd’

Zahra Sayeedi is a woman artist based in Afghanistan. (Photo: Zahra Sayeedi/Facebook)

Middle East

Taliban depriving women of their most basic rights, female Afghan artist says

A farmer ploughs a wheat field in the northeastern Kurdish-held city of Qamishli, part of the Syria's breadbasket region of Hasakah which has been hit hard by low rainfall (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Syria

Dry year leaves Syria wheat farmers facing crop failure

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh (Photo: Tasnim News Agency)

Iran

Iran again warns opposition groups based in Kurdistan Region