Since Iraqi forces pushed the Kurds out of the Yazidis’ mountainous heartland of Sinjar in northern Iraq in October, residents are wondering what could happen...
Iraqi Kurds have lost control over the disputed city of Kirkuk after Iraqi central government forces and Iranian-backed militias retook the territory this...
Iraq’s prime minister Monday called for calm in the self-ruled northern Kurdish region after rioting the previous night following the Kurdish regional...
Iraq’s prime minister Thursday dismissed a Kurdish proposal to “freeze” the results of last month’s independence vote, as Iraqi government forces and Kurdish...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey may shut its border with northern Iraq "at any moment" after closing its air space to the region, Hurriyet...
Kurdish peshmerga forces have retreated to positions they held in northern Iraq in June 2014 in response to an Iraqi army advance into the region after a...
The Iraqi government has a series of conditions that the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) must meet before agreeing to hold talks on the crisis triggered by...
Iraq’s prime minister Thursday denied an attack on the Kurds was imminent, in a bid to defuse tensions that had prompted Kurdish peshmerga fighters to...
Jalal Talabani, whose presidency of post-Saddam Iraq symbolized the resurgence of the country’s long-oppressed Kurdish people, was brought home Friday and...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Turkey would soon close its border with northern Iraq and shut its airspace in response to last week’s...
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey would soon close its border with northern Iraq and shut its air space in response to last week's Kurdish...
Turkey took the Kurdish television channel Rudaw off its satellite service TurkSat, a Turkish broadcasting official said, in the country's first response to a...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to impose sanctions against Kurdish northern Iraq over a planned independence vote, piling economic...
Turkey will consider imposing sanctions on Kurdish northern Iraq over its planned independence referendum, President Tayyip Erdogan was cited by state-run...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey Tuesday said a Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq could lead to fresh conflicts in the Middle East.
Iraqi Kurds may have long dreamed of founding their own state, but the independence referendum set for Sept. 25 has also exposed divisions between their...
Police deployed in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk to prevent any outbreak of ethnic violence ahead of an independence referendum strongly opposed by the Baghdad...
Iraq’s Kurds are planning to vote on their independence in a Sept. 25 referendum, but the poll is more of a tool to pressure Baghdad than a step toward real...
Iraq’s top court Monday temporarily suspended the northern Kurdish region’s referendum on independence that’s due next week.
The number of civilians escaping the fighting in Mosul has increased significantly as battles intensify between U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and Daesh (ISIS)...