A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq ...

By bnm Baghdad bureau The Kurdistan Workers' Party announced on July 3 that its fighters in northern Iraq will begin ...

The main Erbil-Kirkuk highway reopened on Thursday after supporters of the Iraqi Turkmen Front blocked it for over an hour in ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK announced it will start handing over weapons in northern Iraq, marking the first step in a historic disarmament process after 40 years of conflict.

ERBIL, Kurdistan - Judge Munther Hussein was sworn in on Thursday as the new head of Iraq’s highest judicial authority, the ...

Maao said that in the Yazidi story, God rewarded this angel (which they believe was a spirit called Melek Tawûs) for his ...

The Iraqi Kurds’ recent territorial gains have sparked widespread speculation that they may soon be able to realize the Kurdish dream of statehood. Over the past few weeks, excited Kurds around ...

Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the ...

So Kurdish leaders believe that, at least for the time being, the answer is federalism, a soft partition of Iraq into three parts. Kurdistan in the north, a Sunni state in the middle and a Shiite ...

Ordered by Saddam Hussein, Iraqi air force planes dropped napalm, mustard gas and other deadly agents on Halabja, Iraq. Getty Images. In addition, the Kurds were able to gain local autonomy, with ...

Iraqi Kurdistan seems to be a classic example of the resource curse. Oil is found, pumped, shipped and sold (and sometimes stolen). Regimes, politicians, ministers and companies come and go.