Iraqi Kurdistan

A sheriff’s badge reading “MAGA,” festooned with price tags, against a red background.

FBI Says MAGA Sheriff Sold Deputy Badge to Iraqi Fixer

According to an FBI search warrant obtained by The Daily Beast, Barzani family associate Haval Dosky was sworn in as a reserve deputy for a $5,000 donation.

Justin Rohrlich

TOUGH LUCK

Trump to Kurds: We Paid You, ISIS Is Your Problem Now

In his first comments on his command to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, the president shows no remorse for abandoning his allies.

Jamie Ross

INCREDIBLE

3,400-Year-Old Palace Surfaces After Iraq Drought

A joint German-Kurdish team has been working on the excavation since fall 2018.

Anna Kaplan

BOOM!

Is Iran Testing Trump With Little Attacks?

A single rocket landed inside Baghdad's Green Zone near the U.S. embassy on Sunday night. An Iraqi counterterrorism officer tells The Daily Beast an Iran-backed militia fired it.

Anne Speckhard

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ORPHANS OF THE STORM

Innocent, Abandoned, Despised: ISIS Infants Have No Home

Iraq’s Yazidi minority has forgiven its women for being enslaved and raped by fighters from the defunct Islamic State, but it hasn’t forgiven their children for being born.

Kimberly Dozier