Iraqi Kurdistan

One of Europe’s most notorious people-smugglers, Barzan Majeed, says he transported thousands of people across the Channel.

Scientists build a 3D model of one of our evolutionary cousins from the pieces of a shattered skull.

Palaeoanthropologist Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of the Shanidar Z Neanderthal skull.

Jiyar Gol analyses the message Iran is seeking to send with its strikes in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan.

Iran says it launched missiles at Israeli "spy headquarters" in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.

Many of those injured in the demonstrations avoid going to hospital for fear of being arrested.

In the Kurdistan region, women who feel trapped in abusive households often see suicide by self-immolation as their only way out.