Iraqi Shi’ite leaders arrived in Erbil for talks with Kurdish officials as political deadlock deepens over appointing a new ...

The process of forming a government in Iraq has reached a near dead end, after parliament failed for a second time to convene a session dedicated to electing a new president of the republic and ...

The Coordination Framework gives the KDP and PUK 48 hours to agree on a presidential candidate. Aqeel al-Rudaini reports progress in ending the Iraq political deadlock.

Assad, minority groups in Syria have been targeted with violence. The US and other regional powers have largely stayed silent ...

For decades, the Turkish army has operated in northern Iraq. It has established bases and posts in the mountainous Kurdish region. This is the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq which has ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the country’s north in a long-running dispute over the sharing of oil revenues. The ...

In recent years, the Sulaymaniyah governorate in eastern Iraqi Kurdistan has become a hub for Iranian narco trafficking. The ...

A representative of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq says the group’s armed wing has launched attacks on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for Tehran's violent crackdown on ...

The Iraqi parliament postponed its session scheduled to elect the President of the Republic after the two main Kurdish parties failed to agree on a single candidate, at the request of the other Iraqi ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region has halted oil exports over a payment row with the central government in Baghdad, the latest dispute in a long-troubled relationship between the two ...

Demands by Iraqi Kurds for greater autonomy have roiled their Turkish neighbors. A recent war of words between Turkish officials and Iraq’s Kurds has revived concerns of a cross-border conflict in ...

Instead of gaining independence, the Kurds have suffered historic setbacks. — -- In ongoing standoff following a referendum for an independent state separate from Iraq, Kurds in northwestern Iraq ...