How the US has put the most peaceful region of Iraq at risk - opinion
From 2014 to 2017, Iraqi Kurdistan was one of the most secure places in the world, despite sharing a thousand-kilometer-long border with ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
IRAQI KURDISH people celebrate Nowruz Day, a festival marking the first day of spring and the new year, in the town of Akra earlier this year. (photo credit: ARI JALAL / REUTERS)ByFARHANG FARAYDOON NAMDAR