The Kurdish Regional Government has set a positive example in the Middle East by embracing different faith communities and ...

Since childhood, we’ve known that Iraq and Kurdistan are rich in ancient civilizations,” said Fatima Ali Mahmoud, a tourist ...

How the first excavations in an ancient city are supporting its claim as the oldest continuously inhabited place in the world The booming city of Erbil (ancient Arbela) in Kurdistan encircles the ...

A 2,000-year-old fortress built on a mountainside in what’s now Iraqi Kurdistan could be part of ... away at the site of an ancient city called Hatra. While it’s matter of speculation, Brown ...

one of the least-researched empires of the Ancient Near East, the Kurdish-German team of researchers said in a press release. “The find is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in ...

Yazidis are religiously distinct from Iraq's predominantly Sunni Kurdish population. Yazidism is an ancient faith, with a rich oral tradition that integrates some Islamic beliefs with elements of ...

accompanied by their Kurdish security guards. On foot, they climbed into the town and made straight for the antiquities site at the northern part of the ancient city: the Tomb of Nahum ...