Lara Fatah

De­spite chal­lenges to the mil­i­tary cam­paign against ISIL, an­a­lysts are con­fi­dent that vic­to­ry is im­mi­nent.

Analy­sis: The lat­est Syr­i­an Kur­dish move to­ward ce­ment­ing au­ton­o­my comes as no sur­prise – but how far will it go?

Much like Kobane be­fore it, the town in north­ern Iraq was pit­ted as the de­ci­sive bat­tle in the war against ISIL.

The pro­pri­etor of the first jazz bar in Iraq’s Kur­dish re­gion is con­fi­dent about his prospects, de­spite the on­go­ing war.

De­bate rages on whether the Kurds are fight­ing for Iraq or fight­ing for a piece of it.

Em­bold­ened Iraqi Kurds may find mo­men­tum for greater gains on the back of ISIL’s rapid ex­pan­sion in Iraq.

More than 66,000 Iraqi fam­i­lies have been dis­placed by fight­ing that first broke out in De­cem­ber 2013 in An­bar province.

Weav­ing and hand­i­crafts are be­ing re-taught to a younger gen­er­a­tion of Iraqi Kurds, but not with­out chal­lenges.