by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 6, 2017 | Middle East
Erbil, London– The official media campaign for Kurdistan’s independence referendum was launched on Tuesday evening in Erbil, where tens of thousands of citizens celebrated the event in the city’s main park, next to the historic castle. Politicians, activists and...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 22, 2016 | Features
Washington-Driving through the desert, Azar Mirkhan told me about the death of his father, Gen. Heso Mirkhan, the peshmerga warrior who helped lead the 1974 Kurdish uprising against the Iraqi government, and who then took his family into exile in Iran. When the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 4, 2016 | Middle East
A large portion of Iraq’s minorities are on the verge of disappearance after 13 years of war, campaigners warned on Monday. “The impact on minorities has been catastrophic. Saddam was terrible; the situation since is worse. Tens of thousands of minorities...
by Heba El Koudsy | Mar 3, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday collectively passed resolutions on establishing an international tribunal that trials Bashar al-Assad for the war crimes committed against the people of Syria and that condemns minorities’ genocides in Syria. The...
by Dalshad Abdullah | Jan 19, 2015 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) transported hundreds of elderly and sick Yazidis captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to the city of Dahuk in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region on Sunday, after they were unexpectedly...
