"It’s a bit surreal! I keep pinching myself to make sure I am really here, and also asking myself why it took so long to come ...

“The First Kurdistan National Prayer Breakfast opened many participants’ eyes to this region,” said Harriger.

He invites us to his home, where we sip tea under an arbor. Colemerikli says there have been 28 Kurdish rebellions in the past 86 years—inspired by centuries of successful resistance to ...

Britain's King Charles and other senior royals joined veterans and crowds to watch a grand military parade and flypast at the ...

The bazaar is one of the largest covered markets in the Kurdish region and one of the oldest in the world. Francesco Lastrucci Tea, dominoes and cigarettes are found in almost every tea place in ...

The flatbread was phenomenal. It was the nicest bread I have ever had, across all Hull restaurants and cuisine ...

I was kindly offered a box to take it home in, but regrettably I already had leftovers - although nothing nearly as good as what I ordered from Kurdistan. I was also offered some tea afterwards ...

ISTANBUL—The café-lined street could have been charming if it weren’t for the dozen armed police officers queued along the ...

Actor Timothy Spall did his best impression of Winston Churchill reading the war time prime minister’s VE day speech. He said ...

One of the other entrepreneurs I interviewed, the founder of Numi Tea, she said ... He comes from a Kurdish Shepherd family and he brought yogurt to U.S. ALISON BEARD: I eat it every day.

This is the seventeeth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...