Al-Monitor | Dana Taib Menmy: Work can be dangerous for the Kurds hired to carry goods across the Iran-Iraq border. Facing harsh weather, topographic conditions and gunfire, we risk our lives to barely provide our familys daily bread, an Iranian Kurd recently told Al-Monitor via a messaging app. Many of these couriers, called kolbars, feel they have ...

Press TV- Iran has officially opened its first cross-border retail market in its Kurdistan region with the aim of providing safe business for local people and check risky trade. For years, the Iraq-Iran border has served as the main conduit for smuggling of goods by porters whose job involves shouldering heavy and bulky loads on foot across remote ...