It just helped my soul heal; it made me feel at home even though I’m not necessarily at home… It gave me a place to belong,” said Muntadher, an 18-year-old resettled refugee from Iraq. He was ...

The U.S. can help Iraq navigate its way to a prosperous future for Iraqi youth, but both countries will have to distance  themselves from  Jerusalem and Tehran ...

The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and enlisted National Guard ...

Chris Dinan will become executive producer of the program immediately, after serving as senior broadcast producer for the ...

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has escalated its retaliatory operations against Israel, launching fresh attacks on a series of Israeli targets. In a recent statement, the umbrella group of Iraqi ...

IRBIL, Iraq — Residents of Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region went to the polls in long-awaited parliamentary ...

Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died.

The primary competitors are the two dominant Kurdish parties: the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of ...

As conflict raged in the Middle East, dramatic footage of explosions lighting up a night sky was misrepresented online as an ...

When CounterPunch went to press 30 years ago on paper printed with ink that smeared your fingers, Bill Gates was worth a mere ...

Iraqi Kurds voted on Sunday for a new regional parliament amid an economic crisis caused by an enforced halt in oil exports ...

A recent indictment claims four Kentucky men bought guns around Louisville, hid them inside car door panels and tried to ship them to Baghdad.