Kurdish representation in Kirkuk’s public institutions is much lower than that of Arabs and Turkmen despite making up nearly ...

For far too long, American policymakers have tiptoed around the Kurdish question, hesitant to fully endorse independence for ...

As Anne Garrels reported on Monday, Kurdistan, in the northern part of Iraq, is very different from the rest of the country. It is noisy, as she reports this morning, with construction, not bombs ...

The sudden reason for the arrest of Lahur Talabany is not clear but it casts a potential shadow over the Patriotic Union of ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified. Massoud Barzani on Friday ordered the country's ...

Iraqi Kurdish officials will not remove Kurdish flags from state buildings along the semi-autonomous border in a defiant move that will fuel tensions with the central government, they said Thursday.

The president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Massoud Barzani, banned the Iraqi flag in 2006, and Kurds had threatened not to fly it during a meeting of parliament members from Arab ...

Some varieties of Kurdish, such as Sorani, are written in the Sorani alphabet, an Arabic-derived script, while the Kurmanji ...

At least five people have been killed and 18 others wounded in Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq, following the arrest of a ...

Iraqi forces removed on Monday the Kurdish flag that was hoisted on the governorate building in April next to an Iraqi flag, said residents, adding that only the Iraqi flag was flying.

ISTANBUL, Oct. 5 -- Turkey staged retaliatory airstrikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Sunday as thousands of Turks attended rain-lashed funerals for 15 soldiers killed by the rebels ...