Iraqi Kurdistan already runs itself in much the same way an independent nation would. It has its own armed forces, and it has been selling its own oil for half the price of what the rest of Iraq ...

Two years ago, the U.S.-led coalition dropped the first airstrikes on the Islamic State group, ushering in a deeper phase of intervention that dramatically changed the fight against the militant ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its ...

You may not be able to find it on a map but it is, Kurds will tell you, another country. Asked if they were in Iraq right now, a student told Simon, "I think that I'm in Kurdistan, not in Iraq." ...

When Iraqi and Kurdish officials met in Baghdad this week over a long-running dispute that has halted oil exports from Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, insiders said the presence of ...

Iran’s ferocious drone and missile attack on Iraqi Kurdistan on Sept. 28 has led some to suggest that the autonomous region needs a new protective aerial umbrella, perhaps not unlike the one ...

It excluded the Lake Van region from Kurdistan, presumably in favor of Armenia. Many Kurds, including the Kurdish nationalist Emin Ali Bedirhan, rejected this map, saying that it compromised ...