BBC World Service investigation reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq, where a vast area is known to locals as ...

The Forbidden Zone spans almost the entire length of the Iraqi border with Turkey and is up to 40km (25 miles) deep in places ...

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an in ...

Turkey is pursuing oil and gas exploration in Bulgaria, Iraq, and Libya, aiming to boost domestic production and become a key ...

Nestled in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan sits the picturesque village of Sergele. For generations villagers have made a living growing pomegranates, almonds and peaches and foraging in the ...

Similar to its operations in Iraq, Turkey has also sought to establish a buffer zone along its border with Syria to contain Syrian armed groups allied with the PKK. In public, Iraq's government ...

The oil dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is fundamentally about sovereignty, not oil ...

Turkey’s Hidden War – The Forbidden Zone, a documentary from the BBC World Service’s award-winning BBC Eye Investigations team, reveals the story of Turkey’s military expansion in ...

Iraq, on April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File) Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, looks on during a joint press ...