Iraq's Kurdistan in Therapy
In Iraq's Kurdistan a small mental health clinic deals with the consequences of multiple traumas over many years.
In Iraq's Kurdistan a small mental health clinic deals with the consequences of multiple traumas over many years.
When Sunni militants with the Islamic State pushed into northern Iraq, Kurdish peshmerga were tasked with fighting them. But the peshmerga have not always represented a unified Kurdistan.
Parents anxiously await news of their teenaged sons who were kidnapped from bus by Islamic militants in Syria.
In the refugee camps of Iraqi Kurdistan, the insurgents are not often what they seem.
Oil-rich and ethnically divided, Kirkuk is one of Iraq's most fought over cities. With ISIS moving along its border, Kirkuk finds itself yet again at the center of conflict.
Drawing on their very personal and painful past, a group of Iraqi Kurdish photographers is attempting to give something back as their region becomes a home for those less fortunate.
These Kurdish villagers once fought Saddam Hussein. Now they are fighting Exxon Mobil.
A small but worrying number of Iraqi Kurds have joined militant Islamist fighting in Syria. Is it simply religious fervor dictating their choices?
Violence in Anbar province has displaced tens of thousands of families. A Kurdish resort town struggles to adjust to an influx of the displaced.
These photos show the range of living conditions for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq. Although much attention has been focused on camps, most struggle to survive on their own.
While the dramatic images of refugees pouring into Northern Iraq are new, Northern Iraq’s troubled relations with Syria—and Syria’s Kurds—are not.
They love George W. Bush for liberating them, but the region's relative stability might not last.