Protests erupted in Sulaimaniyah and other parts of Iraq’s Kurdish region, demanding reintroduction of monthly stipend.
![The demonstrators said they were asking for their 'legitimate right' [Dana Taib Menmy/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211124_120044.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Protests erupted in Sulaimaniyah and other parts of Iraq’s Kurdish region, demanding reintroduction of monthly stipend.
![The demonstrators said they were asking for their 'legitimate right' [Dana Taib Menmy/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/20211124_120044.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Yassin Aref was a victim of post-9/11 Islamophobia and a controversial arrest by the FBI that led to 15 years in jail.
![Aref recites the Quran at his mosque in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq [Dana Taib Menmy/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Yassin-reciting-holy-Quran-in-a-mosque-near-his-house-in-Shorish-photo-by-Dana-Taib-Menmy-for-Al-Jazeera_.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Tens of thousands of Iranian Kurds live in dire conditions in the Kurdish region of Iraq as they await UN help.
![Iranian Kurds arrive at the Iran-Iraq border crossing of Haji Omran [File: Safin Hamed/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IranKurds.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Thirty-three years after mass killings of Kurds in northern Iraq, families struggle to identify and bury the victims.
![Qasm Kadhim inside the graveyard of Anfal victims in Chamchamal [Dana Taib Menmy/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Qasm-Kadhim-inside-the-the-graveyard-of-Anfal-victims-in-Chamchamal-photo-by-Dana-Taib-Menmy-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
While Yazidi elders welcomed women enslaved by ISIL back into the community, children born to ISIL fathers were not.
![ISIL fighters abducted hundreds of Yazidi women and later held them as sex slaves, some for years [Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Yazidi.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Rocket barrage launched from inside Iraq’s Kurdish region raises questions about who is responsible.
![Rocket fire was aimed at a military base inside Erbil's airport but civilian areas were also struck [File: Azad Lashkari/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-16T100823Z_1871068614_RC2MTL9FFLCM_RTRMADP_3_IRAQ-SECURITY.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Iraq’s leaders, fearing defeat in planned June vote, manoeuvred to delay election to buy time, analyst says.
![Iraqis have demonstrated against the state of affairs in their country [Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-25T085039Z_1855323565_RC2KPJ908H3O_RTRMADP_3_IRAQ-PROTESTS-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Security forces in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq have held editor Sherwan Amin Sherwani for nearly two months.
![Sherwani is the editor-in-chief of monthly magazine Bashur, which is critical of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq’s political elite [Courtesy: Rugash Izzaddin Muheiadin]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Sherwan-Sherwani-photo-Rugashs-facbook-account.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)