Skip to content
Monday, June 30, 2025

Boise Chronicle

Boise Breaking News & Events

The location could not be found.
  • News
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Life
  • Money
  • Tech
  • Travel

Tag: Kurdistan

World

Missiles Fired From Iran Hit Near U.S. Consulate Site in Iraq

March 13, 2022March 13, 2022Farnaz Fassihi and Jane ArrafComments Off on Missiles Fired From Iran Hit Near U.S. Consulate Site in Iraq

No serious injuries were reported from the strike, outside the city of Erbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq, and an American official said the consulate site was undamaged.

World

Missiles Fired From Iran Hit Near U.S. Consulate Site in Iraq

March 13, 2022Farnaz Fassihi and Jane ArrafComments Off on Missiles Fired From Iran Hit Near U.S. Consulate Site in Iraq

No serious injuries were reported from the strike, outside the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, and an American official said the consulate site was undamaged.

World

Syria’s Kurds Wanted Autonomy. They Got an Endless War.

February 7, 2022Jane ArrafComments Off on Syria’s Kurds Wanted Autonomy. They Got an Endless War.

The Kurds of northeastern Syria dreamed of establishing an autonomous, multiethnic and gender-equal utopia. Instead, their breakaway region has been engulfed in conflict since its creation.

World

‘Our Boat Was Surrounded by Dead Bodies’: Witnessing a Migrant Tragedy

December 12, 2021December 14, 2021Jane Arraf, Sangar Khaleel and Megan SpeciaComments Off on ‘Our Boat Was Surrounded by Dead Bodies’: Witnessing a Migrant Tragedy

Migrants who were on a separate boat described the horrible aftermath of the sinking in the English Channel that took at least 27 lives.

World

A Couple’s Dream of Reuniting in England Is Dashed in a Channel Disaster

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021Jane ArrafComments Off on A Couple’s Dream of Reuniting in England Is Dashed in a Channel Disaster

A young Kurdish woman, Maryam Nuri, died with 26 others after making a desperate attempt to join her fiancé by crossing the English Channel from France on an inflatable boat.

World

How Fake News on Facebook Helped Fuel a Border Crisis in Europe

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021Andrew Higgins, Adam Satariano and Jane ArrafComments Off on How Fake News on Facebook Helped Fuel a Border Crisis in Europe

Social media worsened a migrant crisis on the border of Belarus and Poland and helped smugglers profit off desperate people trying to reach Europe.

World

Limping and Penniless, Iraqis Deported From Belarus Face Bleak Futures

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021Jane Arraf and Sangar KhaleelComments Off on Limping and Penniless, Iraqis Deported From Belarus Face Bleak Futures

Hundreds of desperate Iraqis are being sent home after becoming political pawns in Belarus’s quarrel with its European Union neighbors.

World

Afghan College Students Find a New Life, and Safety, in Iraq

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021Jane ArrafComments Off on Afghan College Students Find a New Life, and Safety, in Iraq

Regarded as infidels by the Taliban, over 100 students from the American University in Kabul have found an unlikely refuge in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya.

World

Migrants Say Belarusians Took Them to E.U. Border and Supplied Wire Cutters

November 13, 2021November 13, 2021Jane Arraf and Elian PeltierComments Off on Migrants Say Belarusians Took Them to E.U. Border and Supplied Wire Cutters

Iraqi Kurds and other migrants said they were fleeing despair at home, but Belarus encouraged them, offering visas and helping them get to the border.

Posts pagination

Previous 1 2 3

Headlines

Gaza City Cafe Hit by Deadly Strike

June 30, 2025Ephrat Livni and Sahar Alghorra

Gaza City Cafe Hit by Deadly Strike

June 30, 2025Ephrat Livni and Sahar Alghorra

Dangerous Heat Grips Much of Europe, With More to Come

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

Calgary Brings Fluoride Back to Its Drinking Water

June 30, 2025Vjosa Isai

The Prada Sandal That Led to Cries of Cultural Theft in India

June 30, 2025Anupreeta Das

Fordo Nuclear Site Work Taking Place in Iran, Satellate Images Show

June 30, 2025Samuel Granados

Fordo Nuclear Site Work Taking Place in Iran, Satellate Images Show

June 30, 2025Samuel Granados

Nonprofits Lose Legal Bid to Halt U.K. Exports of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025Lizzie Dearden

Crucial Hurricane Monitoring Data Will Go Offline at the End of July

June 30, 2025Rebecca Dzombak and Sachi Kitajima Mulkey

Data Crucial to Hurricane Forecasts Will Continue, but for One Month Only

June 30, 2025Rebecca Dzombak and Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
  • News
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Life
  • Money
  • Tech
  • Travel
  • Tampa Herald
  • Reno Chronicle
  • New Orleans Courier
  • Flint Chronicle
  • St. Louis Herald
  • Boise Chronicle
  • Anchorage Herald
  • Madison Chronicle
  • Chula Vista Chronicle
  • Newark Chronicle
  • Stockton Chronicle
  • Pittsburg Herald
  • Toledo Herald
2020 editorial | Editorial by MysteryThemes.