One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals aims to secure clean water and good sanitation for all by 2030, in recognition of ...

On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan declared its independence from Sudan and became Africa's 54th nation.

Preventable illness and death occur even in industrialized settings that are marked by inequality, lack of information, ...

UNICEF is working with Sudan's Ministry of Health and other partners to protect children from cholera. More supplies and ...

BAGHDAD -- An oil field in Iraq 's Dohuk province was set ablaze Tuesday after being struck by a drone. It is the latest in a series of similar attacks launched recently against oil facilities in ...

H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced in May that it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq, the first ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...

Two drones fell in the Khurmala oilfield in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said in a statement on Monday.

Iraq has managed to uphold domestic stability despite regional turmoil. However, rapid expansion of spending and emerging financing constraints led to arrears accumulation in 2024. These challenges ...