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 ...

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

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The last Kurdish-held security position in Salahaddin province’s Tuz Khurmatu district has been ...

The Iraqi parliament voted this week on a law recognizing Halabja as a province in Iraq. The law passed, which was the final step in creating this new, primarily Kurdish province, which is an ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country’s north in a long-running dispute over the sharing of oil ...

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 ...

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 ...