High up in Iraq’s Zagros Mountains, on the country’s northern border, six of us hike slowly into the growing light of day. As we walk in silence, each of us focused on the narrow beam of light from ...

Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Sulaymaniyah, reconnecting travelers to Iraq’s historic Kurdish city and expanding its ...

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq - A bright red, white and blue flag with the words "Climb to Glory" now flies above Multi- National Division - Center headquarters, symbolizing the transfer of authority from the ...

Through cameras of an Air Force Predator drone looking down on Mount Sinjar, Iraq, airmen from the 15th Reconnaissance Squadron at Creech Air Force Base watched the Islamic State assault on Yazidi ...

FISHKHABOUR, Iraq — They ran from the sound of the Sunni militants’ guns in the night last weekend. Carrying almost nothing, thousands of Yazidis fled to their holy sites on Mount Sinjar in northern ...

US troops assessed the situation Wednesday of thousands of civilian refugees trapped by jihadists on a northern Iraqi mountain, after the United States carried out air strikes against Islamic State ...

The United States is sending more troops to northern Iraq, a move that U.S. officials told CNN on Tuesday is necessary to help in the rescue of tens of thousands of Yazidis trapped in the mountains by ...

Plans for an independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan have angered Ankara and Tehran, but little has changed for Iranian Kurdish rebels at rear bases in the mountains of northern Iraq. A spokesman ...