Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

A Turkish parliamentary delegation has held talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as part of a peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict.

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

For Israel, Kurdistan is part of its security, not a side cause. Kurdish regions in Syria, Iraq and Iran lie across the land ...

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 ...

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 ...

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...