Zagros mountain trail wins international tourism award

Barzi Bakir, the Executive Director of the Kurdistan Trails Organization (KTO), spoke with The New Region about the winning trail being named "Best Wider World Tourism Project" by the British Guild of Travel Writers, saying, "This is more than an award—it’s an invitation to rediscover Kurdistan."

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Experts warn insufficient attention paid to water, climate in Iraqi election campaigning

Despite warnings from experts and international organizations, Iraq’s election campaigns are largely ignoring the country’s worsening water shortage and climate problems, with the threats of desertification and drought putting at risk the livelihoods of millions of Iraqis.

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Exclusive interview with Finnish-Kurdish Global Sumud Flotilla participant Renaz Ebrahimi

"Our histories are very similar: we should know what genocide looks like," Renaz Ebrahimi, who was detained by Israel for her participation in a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, told The New Region, stressing the similarities between the Kurdish and Palestinian causes.

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Closed party offices, ongoing distrust: Dhi Qar politics still shaped by Tishreen protests

Seven years after the 2019 Tishreen protests, most political party offices in Iraq’s Dhi Qar Province remain closed or inactive, reflecting ongoing distrust between citizens and political groups.

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Iran’s currency zero-removal ‘negative signal’: Expert

“Removing four zeros from the currency doesn’t change much in reality. It’s like changing the scale on a thermometer, the numbers look smaller, but the temperature is still the same,” economic expert Mason Farhad Nariman told The New Region.