Angelina Jolie called for protection for Yemeni refugees and international efforts to bring an end to the long-running conflict in Yemen during her visit to Seoul as a special envoy…
U.S President Donald Trump said he believes Saudi Arabia lied in their account of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In an interview with The Washington Post late Saturday, Trump…
The world’s population will increase by 2.2 billion by 2050, the United Nations said on Wednesday, with 1.3 billion of that growth in sub-Saharan Africa. The U.N. Population Fund’s State…
Oil production in Venezuela, a country with the world’s biggest reserves, reached a new low in September as it goes through political and economic instability, declining 3.4 percent in September…
Kurdistan has long been a land of opportunity in both material and social respects, yet far too often, it has also been a land of missed opportunities, particularly in regard…
Crude oil prices stayed steady Friday after a volatile week that saw the highest prices in four years. WTI crude was up 26 cents to $74.59 a barrel in mid-day…
The ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was leading in a parliamentary election in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq with 85 percent of votes counted, the election commission said on…
It has been more than a year since Kurdistan’s referendum on independence. It was the moment when Kurdistan voted overwhelmingly in favour of becoming a separate nation state from Iraq,…
A German Court Tuesday rejected an appeal against Kuwait Airways’ policy of barring Israelis from flying on its planes. The High Court of Hesse ruled that Germany only had an…
The Iraq War saw the use of commercial military forces — mercenaries — to an extensive degree unprecedented in the modern era. One of the military contracting firms, Blackwater (now…
