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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ankara’s decades-long resistance to Kurdish autonomy is being tested as Syrian Democratic Forces seem to be insisting on ...

Iraq’s buffalo population has more than halved in a decade as the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, suffer ...

But Sergele, located 16km (10 miles) from the border with Turkey, has become increasingly surrounded by Turkish military bases, which are dotted across the slopes.

There are also large Kurdish populations in Turkey, Iraq and Iran, but there is no country with a Kurdish majority. The Kurdish-led militia that governs much of northeastern Syria, the Syrian ...