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Iran

Journalist Ruhollah Zam speaks during his trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran, June 2. (AP)

Kidnapped Iranian journalist receives death penalty

Kurdish

A view of the historic city of Shaqlawah, about 48 kilometres northeast of Arbil, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. (AFP)

As visitors stay home, Iraqi Kurdistan tourism collapses

Turkey

A file picture shows members of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) giving a press conference in Baghdad, in June 2006. (AFP)

In Iraq, Turkey has no Muslim Brotherhood to serve its agenda

Iraqi

A file picture of Turkish tanks during past military exercises near the Habur crossing gate between Turkey and Iraq in the Silopi district, southeast Turkey. (AFP)

Facilitation by Barzani suspected in Turkish incursion into northern Iraq

Syria

Members of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the "White Helmets", disinfect a tent in the Kafr Lusin camp for the displaced by the border with Turkey, in Syria's rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib, on March 24. (AFP)

Aid-deprived and under-equipped, NE Syria faces virus threat

Iraq

US Marine Corps Brigadier-General Vincent Barker (L) speaks with Iraqi General Ali Jassim at the US base in Qaim, March 17, as US troops prepare for redeployment. (AFP)

Washington’s policy in Iraq works until it doesn’t

Geoffrey Aronson

Turkey

Maruf Sefinc, president of Cizrespor football team, speaks during a news conference. (Courtesy of Maruf Sefinc)

Facing discrimination, Kurdish football team withdraws from Turkish competition

Constanze Letsch

Iraq

Diman Fatah, the 59-year-old owner of Arbil's first female-run plant nursery, tends to her plants at her nursery in Arbil, Iraq, August 8. (AFP)

For Kurdish Iraq's women entrepreneurs, persistence pays off

US

A convoy of US military vehicles arrives near the Iraqi Kurdish town of Bardarash in the Dohuk governorate after withdrawing from northern Syria on October 21. (AFP)

US forces moved out of Syria can not stay in Iraq: Iraqi military