The crisis in Syria is affecting Kurds all over the world, primarily due to the fear that members of the Syrian government’s ...

Assad, minority groups in Syria have been targeted with violence. The US and other regional powers have largely stayed silent ...

Whoever is nominated from the two Kurdish parties still needs approval from the Shia and Sunni blocs in the parliament.

In recent years, the Sulaymaniyah governorate in eastern Iraqi Kurdistan has become a hub for Iranian narco trafficking. The ...

Maliki's bid for Iraqi PM role as Secretary of State Marco Rubio expresses concerns about pro-Tehran government seizing ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region has halted oil exports over a payment row with the central government in Baghdad, the latest dispute in a long-troubled relationship between the two ...

A representative of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq says the group’s armed wing has launched attacks on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for Tehran's violent crackdown on ...

Iraq is scheduled to form a new government with the election of a new president in a parliamentary session set for Tuesday. The session is also expected to include the nomination of former Prime ...

For some Kurds, the wave of protests that began late last month has raised hopes that perhaps, after 47 years of rule, the ...

Baghdad says former US military sites to 'come under the full control of Iraqi security forces,' some two years after the US ...

Demands by Iraqi Kurds for greater autonomy have roiled their Turkish neighbors. A recent war of words between Turkish officials and Iraq’s Kurds has revived concerns of a cross-border conflict in ...

Instead of gaining independence, the Kurds have suffered historic setbacks. — -- In ongoing standoff following a referendum for an independent state separate from Iraq, Kurds in northwestern Iraq ...