The Kurdistan flag, a symbol for its people, is hoisted every year with the national anthem ‘Ey Reqib’ usually being played. December 17 was designated as the Kurdistan Flag Day by the ...

The occasion is marked in events held at schools across the Kurdistan Region, with students wearing colorful Kurdish clothing and painting their faces with the flag. "You are the future generation ...

TURKEY: THE Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun the first steps towards disarmament, closing a chapter on a four-decade ...

The leader of Iraq's Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, ordered the country’s national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish one. Barzani's action has made government leaders fear the Kurds are ...

America's most reliable ally in the fight against ISIS wants its own country. This long-held ambition moved one step closer to reality Monday as millions of Iraqi Kurds began lining up to vote in ...

Kirkuk, though it falls under Article 140, has been secured by the Peshmerga since mid-2014 and the local government voted to raise the Kurdish flag over government buildings in the city last ...

The war on ISIS has emboldened Iraq's Kurds to take a provocative step — raising their flag above the disputed, multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk. The flag raising has caused ripples around the region.