AKURDISH independence movement was officially inaugurated at the San Francisco Conference in April 1945, in a letter addressed to the delegates in the name of the Kurdish League. The letter was ...

The Kurdistan Region’s two ruling parties - the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) - ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...

Kurdistan will, at best, find itself in an unstable region and, at worst, will be surrounded by hostile powers resentful of its independence and disputing both its borders and claim to resources.

As the president’s traditional support wanes, he is seeking a risky deal with the Kurds to buy a political lifeline. But is ...

Due to sensitivities over the abandonment of the insurgency, the fighters will destroy rather than surrender their weapons.

A Kurdish militant group has announced plans to start disarming as part of a peace process with Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan - Judge Munther Hussein was sworn in on Thursday as the new head of Iraq’s highest judicial authority, the ...

Russia eyes new oil deals in southern Iraq to expand its influence beyond Kurdistan and replicate Iran-style long-term energy pacts.

Erdogan says the probe tackles what he calls a corrupt network that is like 'an octopus whose arms stretch to other parts of ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party says the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take a first formal step toward disarmament on ...

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