Iraq's parliament elected the Sunni politician Haibat Al Halbousi as Speaker during its first session on Monday, the state ...

The majority of residents in Iraqi Kurdistan have endured prolonged and chronic electricity cuts since a deadly drone attack against the autonomous region’s Khor Mor gas field on Wednesday night. The ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The US Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday offered support to protect the Kurdistan Region’s energy infrastructure after a drone attack forced production at the key Khor Mor gas ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The final death toll rose to three, with at least 12 others injured in flash floods on Tuesday in eastern Sulaimani and northern Kirkuk provinces. The tragic incidents have ...

Kurdistan has lost some $28 billion from a dispute between the government of the semi-autonomous region, the central Iraqi government, and Turkey that has been running for over two years now. “From ...

For far too long, American policymakers have tiptoed around the Kurdish question, hesitant to fully endorse independence for fear of regional backlash or instability. But the realities on the ground ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Iddon is a freelance journalist focused on Middle East affairs. Iraqi Kurdistan has once again found its territory, including ...

Kurdistan Regional Government President Nechirvan Barzani meets with Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al Araji on July 9. (KRG President’s Office) For two weeks, drones have increasingly targeted ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in ...

The Kurdish militant group PKK started laying down its weapons, marking the beginning of a disarmament process aimed at ending one of the Middle East’s longest-running insurgencies. A group of 30 ...

A rare moment of hope and unity unfolded this April in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. It was the first Kurdistan National Prayer Breakfast where Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and ...

Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister of the semi-autonomous region in Iraq and president of the new Kurdistan Film Commission Slemani, stepped onto the Croisette stage with founder/chair Bavi Yassin.