The Kurdistan region has its own armed forces, the Peshmerga. Among the largest units are the KDP and PUK, which each have ...

By bnm Baghdad bureau Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government has dissolved Unit 80 military forces, which will operate as First ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A senior member of Iraq’s main Sunni Arab party, the Takaddum Front, sparked controversy on Sunday ...

Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a ...

The Sunni Progress Party, headed by former Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, ranked third with more than 900,000 votes, while the State of Law Coalition, led by former Prime Minister Nouri ...

Following an interim agreement between Iraq's federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, international oil ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani said on Tuesday that drafting a constitution for the ...

Iraqi authorities safely repatriated 25 Kurdish migrants to Iraqi Kurdistan after becoming trapped in Libya while attempting ...

Gulf Keystone Petroleum said on Monday that foreign oil firms in Iraqi Kurdistan have loaded their first cargoes at Turkey's ...

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. For decades, the Turkish army has operated ...

Iraq is embarking on a likely months-long process of government formation after its national election. Sunni and Kurdish ...

Like residents of Berlin during the airlift, inhabitants of Arbil–capital of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq–get a little flutter in their hearts when they see a plane coming in to land. Built ...