Kurdistan

Kurdish singers from across the region were centre stage at Erbil’s citadel on Friday for a concert that offered a rare platform for performers, particularly women from Iran, where laws restrict them from performing solo in public.

Hundreds of bees have died from extreme heat this year in Erbil province, local beekeepers say, describing a loss unlike anything they have seen before.

A 198-year-old mosque in Sulaimani has closed its doors to collective prayers as drought and a deepening water crisis leave residents without water at homes and places of worship.

Among the many tragic stories from the Baath regime’s 1983 genocide against the Barzani tribe is that of Khasraw Mohammed, who chose a personal path of resistance by replanting landmines to target the toppled Iraqi regime’s soldiers.