Thousands of migrants have gotten stuck at the Belarus-Poland border this winter, many of them Kurds from Iraq. Authorities from Baghdad and Erbil are continuing to repatriate migrants from Belarus. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in conjunction with the federal Iraqi government has returned 1,872 people from the eastern European …

The Kurdistan Region’s peshmerga forces suffer another attacked by Islamic State fighters. The Islamic State (IS) attacked Kurdistan Region security forces in northern Iraq again today. The assault occurred north of Kifri in the Diyala province. There were casualties among the Kurdistan Region’s peshmerga forces, the Erbil-based news outlet Kurdistan …

Israel’s leadership has ramped up diplomatic efforts to convince world powers to keep the sanctions on Iran in place and not give an inch during the renewed talks. As negotiators gathered in Vienna for talks with Iran on its nuclear program Nov. 29, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed them …