The KDP called for calm and legal resolution after election tensions in Pirde, confirming contact with the Turkmen Front to ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Sheikh Ahmed Ibrahim is not a candidate in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, but his picture is on ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - There are no plans to export Kirkuk's oil together with that of the Kurdistan Region through the ...

Kurdish farmers in Kirkuk report systematic harassment through irrigation sabotage, water restrictions, and repeated arrests ...

Iraqi politicians are dueling with new hostility over the fate of Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both self-ruled Kurds in the north and Iraq's central government want to control. The dispute has ...

Two vital American allies have reignited their rivalry in Iraq. After months of simmering tensions, national military forces and militia moved to push Kurdish forces out of the disputed city of Kirkuk ...

Iraq’s largest non-associated gas field, Khor Mor, has increased capacity by 50% to 750 MMscf/d after Crescent Petroleum and ...

With ISIS gone, political realities descend upon the Middle East. So far it is the Kurds that have gotten the short end of the deal. In a closed-door meeting at a Washington think tank in July, I had ...

BAGHDAD/KIRKUK, Iraq – Iraqi government forces captured the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish vote on independence with a bold lightning strike that transforms the balance ...

As fighting rocks northern Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk area, and air strikes attempt to take out Islamic State positions, the dust will likely either settle in favor of the Iraqi Kurds, who have played a ...

For decades, even a census has been considered too risky in the hotly contested northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, claimed by Kurds, Arabs and the Turkmen ethnic group. But on Monday, the city’s residents ...