Paris shooting: Suspect admits hatred of foreigners
The suspect in a Paris shooting that left three Kurds dead told prosecutors he set out to kill foreigners. The 69-year-old man was admitted into a psychiatric ward.
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'There is no future here': Iraqi Kurds look to migrate to Europe
Haresh Talib is an Iraqi Kurd. He is a printer and a civil servant in Sulaimaniyah and has a flat in a good area of the city. But he is hoping once again to travel to Europe to ensure his family’s future.
'We decided to leave everything to get to a country with adequate hospitals'
Sangar and his wife Kanar left Iraqi Kurdistan in hopes of getting better medical care for their children. For months, the family was stuck at the Polish-Belarusian border desperate to reach the EU. This week, they finally arrived in Italy.
Lawsuit filed against French rescuers in Channel tragedy
The Paris prosecutor's office has received a lawsuit accusing several regional government bodies of failure to provide help in last month's boat wreck in the English Channel that cost the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach Britain.
Kurdish refugee Baxtyar Anwar reached Germany, only to die there
A 25-year-old man who managed to cross Belarus and Poland died late last month just after reaching Germany. Baxtyar Anwar’s body was returned home to Iraqi Kurdistan for burial on Sunday.
Tensions remain on Polish-Belarus border, despite decrease in crossings
Small groups of journalists have recently been allowed into the restricted border zone on the Polish side of the Poland-Belarus border. The Polish border guard reports fewer crossings, but tensions remain. Meanwhile on Sunday, another death was reported of a mother of five from Iraqi Kurdistan.
More migrants flown back to Iraq from Belarus
The latest planeload of Iraqis who had traveled to Belarus in the hope of making it to Europe took off to northern Iraq from Minsk on Saturday, December 4.
Families wait for the truth after Channel tragedy
Four Afghans are waiting in France to find out if they might be related to migrants who died in the Channel shipwreck on November 24. The shipwreck claimed the lives of 27 people. So far, just one victim has been identified.
'Taman needs your help': Kurdish boy with amputated legs makes appeal at Belarus border
A small boy called Taman is among thousands of migrants at the Polish-Belarus border. Reportedly born with a bone disease, Taman had both his legs amputated in Iraq. Now his family hope to travel to Germany to get help for him.
Two burials as tensions at the Poland-Belarus border continue
The body of a young Syrian migrant who drowned in a river was buried on Monday in a small Muslim cemetery in Poland. An Iraqi Kurdish man, who died last month at the border, was also buried after being flown home to Erbil. Meanwhile, despair and tension continue at the border among migrants hoping to cross into the EU.
Protests over Kurdish migrant's death in Greek detention camp
Migrants in a detention center in Corinth have staged protests after a man in the camp reportedly committed suicide at the weekend. InfoMigrants received messages on Saturday confirming the man's death.
Kurdish community in Iraq says suicides on the rise
The Kurdish community in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region says that the numbers of suicides are increasing, particularly in refugee camps full of Kurdish Yazidis.