Today, he is the head of the monastery, which is located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. As well as Fr. Petzold--now an ordained priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church--the ...

After 38 years in the Army, Lt. Gen. John Morrison Jr. has retired, leaving behind a legacy that will help the Army be ...

An Elphin family has been left devastated and heartbroken with the news broke that father of four Robert Pether will not be ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...

By John Lee. Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, met with Rachid Talbi El Alami, Speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives, in Rabat on 6th February 2025 to discuss ...

Born in 1898 in a small Nile Delta village, Umm Kulthum rose from humble beginnings to become the most celebrated voice in the Arab world. Her father, an imam, recognised her talent early on, but ...

The plan outlined at the press conference would be a betrayal of America First principles, as well as a costly mistake.

Ten Republican members of the US House of Representatives have demanded that Washington designate several Iraqi paramilitary ...

In fact, his aides and allies took pains to describe his initial flurry of executive activity as “shock and awe,” reviving an ...

Hamas has now promised to release Israeli captives. Here, we put faces to the names of the living and the lost and tell their ...

President Trump said on Friday that there is "no rush" moving forward with his "Gaza takeover" plan, which he also described ...

Travelling through the Middle East over the course of five months to film a new series and write a book I often found myself in these otherworldly encounters. In Iraq, I sipped tea with Abu Tahsin – a ...