Kurdish

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) celebrate the defeat of ISIS in Raqqa, Syria.
Conflict
A Raqqa resident asks why militia had to destroy his city to liberate it
Daniel Libeskind
Culture
The Kurds have no country of their own and their story is largely untold. A planned museum in Erbil aims to change that.
The digital activist
Global Politics
Meet one of Turkey’s original digital protesters — and see how she’s keeping up the fight for change
Translator extraordinaire Ayub Nuri on the right, along with reporter Aaron Schachter and their driver Abdulrazzaq Zanjeel at a street cafe in Baghdad in 2003.
Conflict
Fixers are a foreign reporter’s best friend — and often their lifeline
Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi, who was nominated by Iraq's president to replace Nouri al-Maliki.
Conflict
It might take a miracle to get Iraq back on track
A US Coast Guard image of the oil tanker United Kalavyrta, which is carrying a cargo of Kurdish crude oil, approaching Galveston, Texas on July 25.
Business
A mystery oil tanker is anchored in limbo outside of Houston