Fifteen years ago, we’d have been trying to kill each other. Now we’re drinking tea.” It was September 2017 and the last Isis-controlled strongholds were just a few miles away. I was embedded with the ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

A new skatepark has opened in Baghdad, the first in the Iraqi capital. The park, which was opened by three organisations from Italy, Iraq and Belgium after lengthy negotiations, now provides a welcome ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...