Return Plan Is Full of Risk The Yazidis of northern Iraq are an ancient religious minority. Islamic State forces brought suffering to the group in a series of targeted attacks six years ago. Now, many Yazidis want peace, security and a better life in their hometown of Sinjar, but a new plan for the...

Four parts of greater Kurdistan together https://www.rudaw.net/contentfiles/544035Image1.jpg?mode=crop&quality=70&rand=1&scale=both&w=752&h=472&version=1696981 Photographer Murat Yazar says he has united Kurds, if only on paper, in his new book of black and white photography...

KRG foils several planned attacks in Kurdistan Region The Kurdistan Region's Security Council (KRSC) announced on Monday that it had arrested 17 suspects planning "sabotage attacks" aiming to target diplomatic missions, businesses and a governor, suspecting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party to...

Peshmerga hunt down ISIS Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Kirkuk province have launched a raid Sunday morning to hunt down suspected Islamic State (ISIS) remnants targeting the local population, says a top military official The raid is covering territory near Sheikh Bzaini, an area in the Shwan...

Dana Gas to amp up investments Dana Gas announced that it will increase its investments in the Kurdistan Region by selling some of its assets in Egypt it will begin implementing its plans to increase natural gas production "We will expand our investments in world-class refineries in the Kurdis...

The fragility of Armenia’s largest ethnic minority On a hot and dry September morning, the descendants of three Yazidi villages from the Armavir region in Armenia met at a cemetery on a hill, on the outskirts of the town of Sardarapat Every village has its own annual cemetery festival, which is peg...

Control Key Shortcuts List of A to Z computer shortcut keys In computer, a Control key is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a certain action. Apple control key Apple command key on Apple computer keyboards the Ctrl key is written as "control" and...

Type Faster With AutoHotKey You’ve gotten the hang of email filters or keyboard shortcuts. You’re ready to start getting into some more advanced productivity hacks, but jumping into Python seems too intimidating. Fortunately, there’s a tool that’s robust enough for power users but accessible enough...

Keyboard Tricks The more one can do without taking hands off the keyboard, the quicker one can keep plugging away on the important stuff The Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know Let's start with the basics: learn as many keyboard shortcuts as your brain can store. You probably know a few (Ctrl+C to c...

Relatives of victims want final rest for loved ones Iraqi and Kurdish teams have exhumed two mass graves in the Yezidi homeland of the Shingal region of Nineveh province. The victims that lie in the graves were killed by Islamic State (ISIS) militants six years ago https://www.rudaw.net/contentfile...

Four HDP officials detained Four provincial co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) were detained by Turkish security forces after fresh raids in Diyarbakir province on Thursday 22 October, according to the party “Following a long-lasting search and raid on our provincial offic...

Iraq resumes exhuming Shingal mass graves of ISIS victims Karim Khan, head of the United Nations team investigating ISIS crimes in Iraq, thanked the Yezidi community that has been waiting to see justice for the atrocities committed against them. “The soil of Iraq is littered with sites where civili...

ISIS child soldiers left without help Hundreds of Iraqi boys, many of them Yazidis, were forced to become child soldiers by ISIS, but few are getting any support to help them move on from their experience Before his rescue from the Islamic State group, Hani, a kidnapped Yazidi boy, had been shelter...

Trump on 'blowing up' Nile Dam Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam under construction on the river Nileimage will be the biggest hydro-electric project in Africa https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/4BCE/production/_109560491_river_nile_dam_640-nc.png Ethiopia's prime minister has said his country "will no...

Kettle Sales Banned in Wales Police tonight revealed extraordinary plans to patrol the Anglo-Welsh border to stop families from crossing over for a half-term holiday as Wales is plunged into a two-week 'firebreak' lockdown Drivers were seen crossing the border on the A494 at Queensferry and on the ...