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Kurdish residents hold flags during Norouz celebrations in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad. (Ako Rasheed / Reuters)

Kurds Celebrate Launch of Independence Referendum Campaign

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...

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Kurdish Peshmerga forces drive a vehicle near the town of Makhmur, south of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan after ISIS insurgents withdrew August 18, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Kurdistan: The Oasis of Stability in Region of Dangers

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...

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Yazidi boy Emad, 5, has a jelly drink as he and his brother Murad (back), who was trained by ISIS, stand in a grocery at a refugee camp near the northern Iraqi city of Duhok April 19, 2016, Reuters

Iraqi Minorities Facing either Extinction or Exodus

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...

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UNICEF school in Damascus pounded by the Syrian Regime air force- Reuters

U.S. Bill Calls for Tribunal to Prosecute Assad for War Crimes

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...

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An elderly Yazidi arrives in Kirkuk after being released by ISIS, on January 17, 2015 (AP Photo)

Elderly Yazidis speak of ordeal at hands of ISIS

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...