Halbousi, a member of the Sunni Taqaddum Party, was elected speaker of Iraq’s parliament on Monday during the first session ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - President Masoud Barzani on Monday called for a new mechanism to select Iraq’s president, ...

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

Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government have agreed to extend their critical oil export deal, ensuring the continued flow ...

Reports in regional media indicate that Iraqi Sunnis are divided on whether to elect a speaker for the country’s parliament.Iraq’s top leadership is divided along sectarian lines, with the president ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the ...

Barham Salih is a worthy pick for U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees ...

MARIAM BEK, Iraq (AP) — As Islamic extremists seek to sweep away borders in their advance across the Middle East, Kurds in northern Iraq appear to be in the process of digging a new one, asserting ...

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Kurds threatened Tuesday to boycott national elections, days after the country's Sunni vice president threatened to veto the newly passed election law needed to hold the January vote ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday 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 ...

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 ...