More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s newly formed ministerial committee tasked with resolving outstanding disputes between Erbil ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its ...

The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party has renewed his call for fighters to disarm. Abdullah Ocalan emphasized ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji continued his visit to Erbil on Thursday, meeting ...

Militant fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) will begin handing over weapons in groups in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday as part of a peace process with Turkey, Turkish ...

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 ...

In Iraq, Turkey's relationship with the Kurdistan Regional Government is more nuanced. Whereas Turkey opposes its own Kurds, it has forged strong military and economic ties with those in Iraq.

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 ...

On Monday, millions of Iraqi Kurds will head to the polls to vote in an advisory referendum on independence from Iraq. Here’s what you need to know.

Iraqi Kurdish protesters wave flags of their autonomous Kurdistan region during a demonstration to claim for its independence on July 3, 2014 outside the Kurdistan parliament building in Arbil, in ...

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.