Whoever is nominated from the two Kurdish parties still needs approval from the Shia and Sunni blocs in the parliament.

Ex-prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is often seen as responsible for sectarian tensions and military mismanagement that made ...

The crisis in Syria is affecting Kurds all over the world, primarily due to the fear that members of the Syrian government’s ...

Iraq is scheduled to form a new government with the election of a new president in a parliamentary session set for Tuesday. The session is also expected to include the nomination of former Prime ...

Assad, minority groups in Syria have been targeted with violence. The US and other regional powers have largely stayed silent ...

As Trump steps back from threats against Iran, Kurdish Iranian opposition group says it's ready to help topple the regime, ...

Iraq is prepared to intervene militarily if the Kurdish region's planned independence referendum results in violence, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview ...

Iraqi security forces late Tuesday captured an individual wearing an explosive belt near a Kurdish-owned restaurant in Ramadi city, the provincial capital of Iraq’s western Anbar province, authorities ...

Syrian Kurdish forces have lost control of big parts of the country this month as government troops under President Ahmed al-Sharaa seek to bring their security forces and territory under the ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region has halted oil exports over a payment row with the central government in Baghdad, the latest dispute in a long-troubled relationship between the two ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Secretary Mike Pompeo warn of dire threats to Syrian Kurds as Syrian forces attack ...