After the Iraqi constitution went into effect, the KRG and the Iraqi government negotiated an agreement under which the Kurds were to receive 17.5 percent of Iraq’s budget, but Baghdad stopped ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq — Ali Askeri was a mercurial mountain fighter with a bandoleer and a Kalashnikov. He battled the Iraqi regime in the ‘70s, but in the end it was his fellow Kurds who ...

Foreign Kurds see the autonomous region as a haven. But separatist ambitions could shake the Middle East. A bastion of Kurdish hopes in Iraq - Los Angeles Times ...

Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are proving a difficult weapon to overcome for Iraq's Kurds, much as they were for US forces in the country after 2003.

FILE - In this In this Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 file photo, rubble and damaged buildings are seen in the devastated Syrian city of Kobani. While Islamic State fighters have been forced to retreat ...

In an effort to maximize their voice in Baghdad, Iraq’s largest Kurdish parties are running as a coalition in the 15 December parliamentary elections. But the alliance’s two key factions ...

Work on a new Iraq census was to begin in October. But Iraqi officials say they may postpone the project amid concerns it could lead to violence north of Baghdad where Arabs, Kurds, and Turkomans ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq — It’s a place of big skies, vast mountain ranges and heart-breaking beauty; proud, ... a protracted struggle for independence and a headstrong, ...

Kurdish,fighters,in,Iraq,struggle,to,hold,gains,against,IS. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter fires a weapon towards positions of the Islamic State group who are 500 meters or half a mile away ...

For Kurds, it carries deep political meaning, reflecting their cultural identity and long struggle for autonomy. With over 20 million Kurds across Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey, the festival ...