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.

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

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 ...

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 decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.

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 ...

Even on a normal day, Ibrahim Khalil, the complex straddlingTurkey and Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, is a rather unusualinternational border crossing. Although it is an entry ...

Iraq's Kurdish leaders, once fierce rivals, have been working together to achieve autonomy for their oil-rich northern region. But, for now, Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani realize they must ...