The Parliament extended the mandate to send military troops abroad for 13 months during their first convention Saturday of the new legislative year after one and a half month long recess.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) chief in Iraq on Thursday warned that up to one million people could need assistance in the wake of a military offensive to reclaim Mosul from the so-called "Islamic State" militant group.
(AP) -- Russian officials accused the U.S. on Thursday of siding with "terrorists" in Syria, in a sign of escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington amid the battle for the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby's warning that the collapse of U.S.
Recently while touring the U.S. and Canada, London's first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, "attacked anti-Muslim views and policies and argued that what is needed is to build 'bridges rather than walls'--a reference to Mr. Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Remarkable stories of how refugees who lost everything are now rebuilding their lives from scratch have emerged from Iraq.
For hundreds of thousands of voiceless people, the 2016 presidential election in the United States is a life or death situation. Assyrian Christians, Yezidis, and other highly endangered minorities in Iraq and the Middle East cannot bear another four years of disastrous American foreign policy.