On Monday, Iraqi Kurds are heading to the polls to vote on a referendum for independence. Much of the controversy surrounding the referendum revolves around Iraqi Kurdistan de facto President Massoud ...

At the beginning of the 2000s, there were still 1.5 million Christians in Iraq. Today, only 140,000 remain,[2] divided between federal Iraq and the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. Mostly ...

Evidence has been found at Kazhaw that Christians and Zoroastrians coexisted 1,500 years ago in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq, still face displacement 11 years after the jihadist group’s attacks. This is part 2 in a series on the Yazidi community. Click here for part 1. The previous ...

Two people were injured on April 1 in a cleaver attack on an Assyrian Christian celebration in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, officials said, pointing to the Islamic State jihadist group ...

The head of a lamassu statue, an ancient Assyrian deity often depicted as a winged-bull with a human head, lies in the archaeological site of Nimrud, south of Mosul, on January 3, 2025. (Zaid ...

Nineveh and its remains : With an account of a visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers; and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians ...