The war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022 not only transformed the political and security landscape of ...

Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has warned that drone attacks on the Kurdistan Region's oil fields could derail Iraq's "golden opportunity" for progress. He says the government's failure ...

The specter of civil war has returned to haunt Sulaymaniyah, the second-largest city in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. The sound of gunfire and scenes of thick smoke in the streets not only revived ...

An explosion occurred in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq on Sunday evening, the third day of the Israel-Iran war. Residents said the explosion was caused by a drone and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Friday that any attempts by Kurds to divide the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Peshmerga Alley, a tribute to the Kurdish role in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS), was ...

IRBIL, Iraq — From abroad, Iranian Kurdish dissident groups have been watching closely for signs that Iran’s theocracy could falter in its grip on the country, battered by Israeli airstrikes in the ...

Playing tourists in one of the world’s most dangerous cities is not how we imagined we’d end up spending Tuesday, but there we were atop Kirkuk’s ancient citadel admiring – and mourning – the ...

You may think about taking a trip to a place generally headlined for conflict and unrest. Well, I did just that, and it turned out to be one of the most enlightening experiences of my life. American, ...

In a quiet but historic turn, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party announced its official dissolution during its 12th Congress in May 2025. After more than four decades of armed conflict with the Turkish ...

A militant Kurdish group end its struggle against Turkey: grieving mothers ask if it was worth the high cost Two Kurdish mothers reckon with what peace could mean after decades of war DIYARBAKIR, ...

ISTANBUL — Sirri Sureyya Onder, a key figure in Turkey’s latest effort to end the four-decade Kurdish conflict, died Saturday. He was 62. Onder died of multiple organ failure 18 days after he was ...