Middle East

By Michelle Boorstein, Sarah Pulliam Bailey Washington Post Donald Trump promised to bring “Merry Christmas” back and on his first Noel as president he seems to have done that — and more. Americans were already in a longstanding debate about whether there was a war on Christmas, but Trump’s presidential battle cry about the greeting appears to have made people even …

ERBIL, Iraq—Masoud Barzani resigned Sunday as president of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, a month after an independence referendum he orchestrated angered Baghdad, reversing years of political and military gains by the Kurds and dashing their dreams of statehood.