October 18, 2023 at 10:00 p.m. EDT
(Illustration by Shubhadeep Mukherjee; AFP/Getty Images; Biplov Bhuyan/SOPA/Sipa/AP)
Comment on this storyComment
CHURACHANDP… Read More
In pictures from high above, the island of Gardi Sugdub resembles a container shipyard — small, brightly colored dwellings are jammed together cheek to jowl. At ground level, the isl… Read More
Iran’s nationwide crackdown on antigovernment protests has been especially severe against its Kurdish minority, with drone and artillery strikes against separatist groups and deadly c… Read More
Six rockets landed near Erbil International Airport in the semiautonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq on Wednesday, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Interior of the… Read More
When a small car bomb exploded outside a courthouse in the bustling port city of Bosaso in northern Somalia, local news reports chalked it up to Islamist militants retaliating for American a… Read More
Iraqi forces have retaken the town of Hwaija from the Islamic State, Iraq’s prime minister said on Oct. 5. Hwaija is the last significant urban territory controlled by the group. (Twit… Read More
A poster in Irbil, Iraq, urges Kurds to vote for independence. (Mohamed Messara/EPA-EFE) September 24 at 12:19 PM
IRBIL, Iraq — Iran blocked flights to and from the neighbor… Read More
A 15-year-old al-Shabab defector stands in early April in the Elman Centre, a facility in Mogadishu that rehabilitates former child combatants. Photo / Washington PostFor years they were chi… Read More