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Testing Kurdish Hospitality
Syrian-Kurdish refugees, Jvan Khaled and his wife Shekha, celebrate their wedding ceremony at the Kawergosk refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan on November 22, 2013. (Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images) Iraqi...
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Halabja in Perspective
Kurdish paramilitary guard the mass graves of the civilian victims of the 1988 poison gas attack on the town of Halabja. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images)The chemical weapons attack on Halabja in 1988...
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Iraq’s Energy Wars
Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechervan Barzani (L) and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu meet during Barzani’s official visit to Turkey on March 15, 2014. (Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu...
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Losing Erbil
Iraqi Kurdish anti-government protesters march in the city of Sulaimaniyah on February 17, 2011 (SHWAN MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images)Can flight timetables tell us anything about international politics?...
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Standing Up for Iraq’s Turkmen
Iraqi Turkmen Front leader Arshad Al-Salihi shows his ink-stained finger after casting his ballot in the Iraqi parliamentary elections on April 30, 2014 in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Ali Mukerrem/Anadolu...
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Turkey’s Kurdish Lifeline?
A view of construction on the pipeline between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey, taken in Dohuk on December 10, 2013.(Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) The tug-of-war between Iraq and Erbil, the...
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Yesterday’s Enemies, Tomorrow’s Friends?
Kurdish Peshmerga forces seize control of Mosul’s Rabia district after Iraqi army forces abandoned the city to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, June 14, 2014. (Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty...
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Dancing in Kirkuk
A member of Halparki Kirkuk practices his dance moves. (Hannah Lucinda Smith) On a baking hot Monday afternoon just before the start of Ramadan, a group of teenagers filed into a dilapidated sports...
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Remembering Halabja
A Kurdish family have their photo taken in front of a tank used during the Saddam Hussein regime, as hundreds commemorated the 25th anniversary of the gas attack in the Kurdish town of Halabja, on...
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No Room for Maneuver
Khalid Azizi, the secretary-general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Iran. Khalid Azizi is a composed and soft-spoken man; he does not exhibit the fiery rhetoric that would be expected of a...
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