ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq has issued monthly salaries to more than 2,200 Yazidi women and girls who survived Islamic ...

Iraqi Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani announced a new agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to resume Kurdish oil exports through Turkey’s Ceyhan port. The deal comes a day after the ...

Hours later, the anti-terrorism department said the Baadre oil field, located in the Sheikhan district of Dohuk province, was ...

Drone strikes on five oil fields in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by unknown groups between July 14 and 16, 2025, ...

The U.S., Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Kurds — they all have interests here but risk touching off a war if they each have their way ...

A drone crashed near Makhmour in the latest attack on Iraq’s Kurdistan region, as officials blame Iran-aligned groups for a ...

By bnm Gulf bureau Bahrain expressed its intention to open a consulate in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, and launch direct flights between Manama and Erbil, Shafaq News reported on August ...

The Kurds are all too familiar with violence, Iraqi style. They have a tradition of tragedy, none more brutal than the blow that came down in a matter of minutes one bloody Friday in 1988.

The Iraqi Kurds’ recent territorial gains have sparked widespread speculation that they may soon be able to realize the Kurdish dream of statehood. Over the past few weeks, excited Kurds around ...

Iraqi Kurds have been in control of their region since 1991, when, with the help of the U.S.-enforced no-fly zone, they drove Saddam’s forces out of northern Iraq.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Iraqi Kurds held an election today that most of the world did not want to happen. It's a referendum on Kurdish independence from Iraq. Voters are expected to support it strongly.