In Basra, southern Iraq, daily routines go on under the weight of the Iran war, as workers unload cargo at Umm Qasr Port and operations slow at the nearby Zubair oil field. At the Shalamcheh border ...

Iraq Kurdish border are cutting families off and crushing daily life, according to people reached by The Associated Press.

NPR reporters Philip Reeves has finished one more tour in Iraq. His latest reporting trip took him to Baghdad at a time when residents are absorbing a sharp increase in car bombings. PHILIP REEVES ...

PKK fighters like senior commander Amed Malazgirt are still based in bunkers in northern Iraq despite beginning a peace process in their struggle with Turkey ...

Maj. John "Alex" Klinner was among six airmen killed in a refueling plane crash during Operation Epic Fury. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Klinner's sister-in-law, Sarah Rose Harrill, about his life.

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The altar in the chapel of the Blessed Michael McGivney Apartment complex in Erbil is covered with dust and debris after an apparent drone strike. As many military analysts feared, the U.S. and ...

A Kurdish militant picks his way along a switchback road in Iraq's mountains before pulling over to alert his comrades in a nearby hidden bunker that they are about to have company. After calling from ...

PKK fighters like senior commander Amed Malazgirt are still based in bunkers in northern Iraq despite beginning a peace process in their struggle with Turkey — Safin HAMID A Kurdish militant picks his ...