Like residents of Berlin during the airlift, inhabitants of Arbil–capital of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq–get a little flutter in their hearts when they see a plane coming in to land. Built ...

Arbil, Iraq - Four-year-old refugee Mohammed has been waiting all his life to go home - a victim of Saddam Hussein's bid to wipe out the Kurds of northern Iraq. "We would love to go back. But there is ...

ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 21 (Reuters) - In a country that bears the scars from decades of war and economic sanctions, the city of Arbil in the heart of Iraq's northern Kurdish region is a popular holiday spot ...

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Shan Abdullah Ahmed travels to Arbil in northern Iraq at least once a month so her teenage daughter can shop for the latest catwalk fashions and stroll freely through an ...

Twin Turkish drone strikes killed seven members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Thursday, authorities said, as Ankara's foreign minister visited the northern ...

Boys cool off with water from a mobile tanker as summer temperatures soar in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region — Safin HAMID The taps have run dry, and the wells are almost empty. In the ...

Iraq's central government has ordered a halt to all international flights to and from the autonomous region from 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) Friday. Iraq's central government has ordered a halt to all ...

An Iraqi oil employee checks pipelines at the Bai Hassan oil field, west of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in 2017 - Copyright GETTY IMAGES/AFP SPENCER PLATT An ...

ARBIL, Iraq, Feb. 21 -- Shakur Ahmed's last view of Iraqi forces, he recalled, was from within a gutted television set where he was hiding from government agents looking to arrest him. It was 1991.

A car bomb exploded in the centre of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil on Wednesday, killing several people, local television reported. Footage from the scene showed several charred vehicles and what ...

If you want a glimpse into the challenge the U.S. faces as it tries to prevent Iraq from coming apart, consider the plight of Salim Izzat. Five months before the U.S. invasion last March, Saddam ...