The Committee recalled the Strasbourg Court’s findings that Demirtaş and other elected parliamentarians had been detained without sufficient evidence, emphasizing that these detentions were ...

For far too long, American policymakers have tiptoed around the Kurdish question, hesitant to fully endorse independence for fear of regional backlash or instability. But the realities on the ground ...

The sudden reason for the arrest of Lahur Talabany is not clear but it casts a potential shadow over the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. A gun battle took place in the Kurdistan region of northern ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged on Wednesday that Iraqi Kurdish authorities release Kurdish journalist Sherwan Sherwani after a court extended his prison sentence, stating: ...

Iraq approved a plan for its semi-autonomous Kurdish region to transfer oil to Baghdad, a key step toward resuming exports that have been halted for more than two years. The Kurdistan Regional ...

Drone attacks damage infrastructure, says regional government The oilfield attacks cut output by up to 150,000 bpd Gulf Keystone Petroleum and DNO suspend operations at key fields No casualties but ...

Several oilfields operated by foreign companies in Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan have halted production in the past few hours following attacks with explosive-laden drones on ...

BAGHDAD, July 15 (Reuters) - A drone attack halted production at the Sarsang oilfield in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Tuesday only hours before its U.S. operator signed a deal to develop another field.

Erbil International Airport in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. (Kosar Nuradeen / Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) — A drone strike on Tuesday forced a U.S. company to suspend ...

STORY: Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, burned their weapons on Friday. The event signified the beginning of a disarmament process meant to end a bloody, four-decade insurgency ...

Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.