ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Hundreds of Kurdish Peshmerga forces assigned to joint brigades with the Iraqi Army have been ...

STORY: Thousands of Islamic State fighters are held inside this heavily fortified prison guarded by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-backed group that holds a ...

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The United States has deployed air defenses to Iraq in the past to intercept ...

Iraqi Kurdistan-based General Yazdanpanah says calls for “decentralization are meaningless, as they will not ensure Kurdish ...

AL SHADADI BASE, Syria (Reuters) -U.S. forces have pulled out of two more bases in northeastern Syria, visiting Reuters reporters found, accelerating a troop drawdown that the commander of U.S.-backed ...

This reflects a longstanding paradox in Iraq, a country with vast oil reserves that should be able to cover its electricity ...

Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region has seen more American troops arrive as US's military footprint in Baghdad shrinks ...

Whatever air defense the U.S. or other allies provide Iraqi Kurdistan to help it fend off these attacks, it will be better ...

HASSAKEH, Syria(AP) — The Syrian government and the main Kurdish-led force in the country’s northeast have agreed in principle on a plan to merge the U.S.-backed force as a cohesive group into the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish farmers in a town north of Kirkuk province said Sunday that they are being told to sign a pledge they suspect could undermine their land ownership, in exchange for ...

HASAKAH, Syria (Reuters) - The Kurdish forces guarding Islamic State fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as they ...