Today, he is the head of the monastery, which is located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. As well as Fr. Petzold--now an ordained priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church--the ...

Türkiye is taking significant steps toward reshaping its regional security strategy by forging new alliances with neighboring countries, particularly Syria and Iraq. In a development that signals a ...

Mera Warti rides his vending bike up the snowy mountains of Zini Warte to sell comfort foods to tourists who flock there ...

In a significant step towards achieving social justice and equality among retirees, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq ...

Iraq's president has sued Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani over unpaid salaries for civil servants in the autonomous ...

Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid has sued Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani over unpaid salaries for civil servants in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, bringing into focus a rift in the ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...

As the teachers attempted to bring their demonstration to Erbil, Kurdish security forces used tear gas and physical force to ...

Three journalists from the left-leaning BirGun newspaper were detained for several hours under anti-terror legislation over a ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (L) welcomes Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) with an official ceremony at ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

A picture Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a ...