The mosque contained what Muslims and Christians believe was the tomb of Jonah. It also held a shrine said to have contained a tooth from the whale that, according to Islamic, Christian and Jewish scripture, carried Jonah inside it for three days.
High rates of female genital mutilation set Iraqi Kurdistan apart from the rest of the country. More than the men, it is […]
With thousands of displaced families in Fallujah escaping the horrors of ISIL, the Kurdish town of Shaqlawa has seen its population swell […]
While both Iraq’s Kurdish fighters and Shiite militias played a key role in blunting and then reversing ISIL’s surge in Iraq, relations […]
The battle with ISIL for the university had been a harsh lesson for Iraqi troops and although it was won, the war […]
