In the wind-swept town of Khanke in northern Iraq, a fragile tree stands as a quiet symbol of resilience. Its slender trunk ...

Deq (Arabic: دەق) or xal (Kurdish: خاڵ) are the Arabic and Kurdish words for tattoo respectively. Traditional Deq (tattoo) or Xal has long been a part of cultural heritage in Kurdistan and Iraq, it is ...

IsraAID had administered post-trauma counseling to Yazidi refugees. Polizer called only because he wanted to know his Houston-based friend was okay. As it happens, the Yazidis in Houston mostly live ...

We are in Kurdistan and are undertaking an ambitious program to provide health care to thousands of refugees and returning displaced persons ... provide health care in Northern Syria to Kurdish and ...

What happened next on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon, plunging it into 15 years of civil war. It would ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

All the latest breaking news on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Browse ibtimes archives of photos, videos and ...

ISIS then proceeded to send him and sixty other Yazidi children to the city of Albukamal in Syria. Regarding his experiences, Othman explained, "After our arrival in Albukamal, ISIS subjected us to a ...

According to local media sources, three people were killed and four others injured today when a shell from war remnants exploded near the health center of the town of Tseel in western Daraa ...

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