"Fifteen Kurdish soldiers from the Zeravani brigades were killed when a truck full of explosives was driven at high speed into a troop concentration near the Mosul Dam."

Many Christians from Nineveh have escaped the Islamic State to the safety of Kurdistan, the ones who refused to leave face two choices: convert or die.

The museum was upgraded by adding samples of traditional Kurdish costumes, of tools, pots and other objects of daily life.

Iraq has been free of the illness since 2000, when the last case was found in the Diyala governorate.

‘The Kurdistan Region has found in itself the power to open doors for dialogue between religions’

The hotels and restaurants have been the main beneficiaries.

“We would rather have safety than enormous tourism income,”

With the year not even over, the number of deaths in car accidents so far in Iraqi Kurdistan are about 50 percent higher than for all of 2012, according to a police report.

”The cause of many car accidents is that drivers disobey driving laws and road rules,”

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