Guitar lessons aren’t exactly a top priority in places like Northern Iraq, where thousands of Kurds and Arabs have been displaced by the war in Syria. But it’s what Portland musician Jerry Joseph can ...

DOHUK, Iraq — With rows of white tents filling a windswept hillside, the Khanke camp in northern Iraq shelters about 14,000 men, women and children from the Yazidi religious minority. They have been ...

Kazem al-Sahir Iraq's most successful pop songs combine graphic accounts of violence and inter-Iraqi treachery with a wistful yearning for better days ahead. The songs are performed at concerts ...

Music and contemporary military recruiting -- Music as an inspiration for combat -- Looking at the opposing forces -- Music as a psychological tactic -- Music as a form of soldier expression -- Metal ...

Emmanuel Kelly has always been told that he was abandoned as a baby in his birth country of Iraq and left on a battlefield, before being taken in by an orphanage in Baghdad. It was the late 90s and ...