The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.

Then fly over Udaipur, India's serene lakes, capture the ancient allure of Tal Afar, Iraq, and take in the coastal charm of Antalya, Turkey.

TAL AFAR, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents melted into the countryside around Tal Afar, the militant stronghold near the Syrian border, and guns fell silent Sunday - the second day of an offensive by 5,000 ...

Human remains being excavated from the Alo Antar pit near Tal Afar, Iraq, in July. The United Nations says evidence of the Islamic State’s genocide of the Yazidi people remains buried in such ...

The base sits on the dangerous western edge of Mosul, overlooking dry, rolling hills through which winds the road to Tal Afar and the Syrian border. The mission of the U.S. army’s military transition ...

According to a unit history, his company saw grinding combat against insurgents in the western part of Tal Afar before reassignment to Ramadi in late 2006.

In 2014, after ISIS had taken Tal Afar and Mosul, the group enslaved thousands of Yazidi women and children and murdered thousands of Yazidi men, in what the United Nations has called a genocide.

Sunni militants captured the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar early on Monday, its mayor and residents said, the latest blow to the nation’s Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast ...

Among other concerns, the union pointed to allegations of human rights violations surrounding the running of a detainee camp in Tal Afar, Iraq in 2005 when McMaster was the commander of the 3rd ...

The town of Tal Afar, has been a source of many army and police officers to Saddam Hussein. “When the Iraqi despot – Saddam Hussein – abandoned all secular pretensions to mobilise Salafist networks to ...

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(The Tal Afar girl, Samar Hassan, is now 18. In one of the film's most moving scenes, she appears on camera to talk about the moment Hondros captured.) ...