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Employees of Basra Oil Company on April 29, 2026. File Photo: AFP

Conflict targets Iran, but Iraq bears major consequences

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Relatives of Anfal victims and survivors during a visit to mass graves and Nugra Salman castle, a remote prison fortress in southern Iraq, on May 17, 2025. File photo: Bilind T. Abdullah/Rudaw

Anfal: The Long Shadow of a Genocide

Students hold up Kurdish language books in a class in Rojava. Photo: ANHA/file

Why Kurdish language rights in the new Syria require constitutional guarantees

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) in a meeting with Iraqi PM-designate Ali al-Zaidi in Baghdad on Monday, May 3, 2026. Photo: President Barzani/X

Nechirvan Barzani’s helping hand to Iraqi PM-designate Zaidi

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A woman waves an Iranian flag in front of an anti-US billboard referring to US President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz at Valiasr Square in Tehran on May 5, 2026. Photo: AFP

Omar Ahmed

Impact of two months of war on Iranians

A Kurdish grammar book, used by Rojava institutions. Photo: SZK

Mizgin Hasan

Kurdish language in Syria: Between interim government policy and indigenous rights

From left: Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan's grandfather, mother and father. Photo: submitted by the author.

Jan Ilhan Kizilhan

My father’s legacy

Laborers work on a construction site. File photo: Rudaw

Omar Ahmed

Iraq faces deepening labor strain as war impact continues: UN labor organization

Iraqi dinar notes. File photo: Bilind T. Abdullah/Rudaw

Mahmood Baban

Iraq records nearly $260 million deficit in January

Mourners cry during the funeral of children killed in a strike on a primary school in the city of Minab, in Iran’s Hormozgan province, on March 3, 2026. Photo: ISNA

Omar Ahmed

Integration of AI in Iran War fuels ethical debate amid heavy human toll

Flags of China and Iran. Graphic: Rudaw

Omar Ahmed

US-Iran war leaves Iran devastated, squeezes China’s cheap oil lifeline

Heads of member states of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) pictured during the 9th summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on November 11, 2022. File photo: AFP.

Mahdi Faraj

Is Turkey’s Pan-Turkic strategy sustainable in Central Asia?

Kurds flying their flag during an event aimed to encourage people to vote in the independence referendum in Erbil on September 15, 2017. File photo: AFP

Jan Ilhan Kizilhan

Visibility without power

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