For years, Israel has treated Turkey and the Kurds as background to its concerns in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. That view is now out of date. Turkey has entrenched itself in northern Syria and parts of ...

The US on Wednesday unveiled a sprawling new diplomatic compound in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, underscoring the country's deepening footprint there as it draws down ...

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 - Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani said on Tuesday that drafting a constitution for the Kurdistan Region will be a priority following the formation of the new ...

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 ...

Iraq expects crude oil exports from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan via pipeline to Turkey to resume this week, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has told Bloomberg in an interview. Oil ...

Oil companies in Iraq’s Kurdistan agreed with the federal and regional governments to resume oil exports that have been halted for more than two years, paving the way for supply into a market on the ...

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 ...

The Kurdistan Region’s city of Dohuk, one of the areas targeted by drone strikes. (Kurdistan Regional Government video) Drone attacks targeting the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq increased in ...

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 ...

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.