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

The Iraqi government has allocated monthly salaries to over 2,400 Yazidi women and girls who survived Islamic State (ISIS) captivity, under the Yazidi Survivors Law.

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.

Dozens of women gather in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, to braid each other's hair in a show of support, ...

A ceasefire has been established after three weeks of fighting. The Kurds have secured major gains in local autonomy and national rights, while the Syrian president claims to have restored national ...

Iraq is prepared to intervene militarily if the Kurdish region's planned independence referendum results in violence, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview ...

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 ...

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 ...

Residents of Iraq's Kurdish region cast their votes today in a controversial independence referendum seen as a way to signal the ethnic minority's desire for self-determination, despite strong ...

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