IRBIL, Iraq -- A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in ...

Autonomous regions exist in many different contexts around the world. While some countries decide to embrace autonomy fully by giving it to all sub-national regions, other instances have to do ...

Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, is in Washington this week. The Kurdistan Region is hoping to pave the way for closer cooperation with the US ...

The semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Wednesday officially began a campaign phase for its parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20. The vote, which was rescheduled five times due ...

Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region votes for new parliament. More than 1,000 candidates, including 368 women, are vying to get elected to the 100-seat regional parliament.

The northern Iraqi autonomous zone of Kurdistan appears to be catching up with the chaos and political stability that has gripped Iraq since the October 2021 parliamentary elections.. On Saturday ...

The recent crashes of two helicopters in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Duhok province as they flew Syrian Kurdish-led fighters to the autonomous region’s eastern Sulaimani province in mid-March raised ...

Iraq’s federal government is giving the administration of the semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region more money to allow it to pay salaries. Sunday’s decision was announced three days after ...

Amid disillusionment, residents of autonomous Kurdistan in northern Iraq voted Sunday to elect their deputies to the regional parliament, a legislative election once again dominated by the two ...

A man registers to vote during parliamentary elections of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region, in Irbil, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. Credit: AP/Salar Salim ...