The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and Mandean lives and destroyed 4,500 villages.
Fighting between Syrian Kurds -who a decade ago clawed out an autonomous territory in the country's northeast- and Turkish-backed militias is posing a serious threat to the current stability.
Iraq's parliament has passed an amnesty law that could lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, including those who fought for the extremist IS group ...
Kurdish PM asserts that any BP deal for Kirkuk oil fields in Iraq must involve Kurdish region, highlighting ongoing tensions with the central government.