ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - President Masoud Barzani said Thursday that recent fighting in northeast Syria (Rojava) risked ...

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Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

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Genre-bending duo Sace6 have signed with Sumerian Records and marked the announcement with the release of their new single Ego and official music video.

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A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems from a single faulty gene in ...

The Kurds are widely believed to be the largest stateless ethnic group in the world.

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