A Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi parliament on Sunday accused Baghdad of hypocrisy in its dealings with Erbil, claiming the federal government applies excessive scrutiny to the Kurdistan Region while ...

After four decades of insurgency, Abdullah Öcalan’s call for democratic politics signals a transformative moment in the ...

That sent a chilling message to the opposition and further narrowed the space in Turkey for democratic engagement. A sense of ...

Here is a look at the life of Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq. Personal Birth date: August 16, 1946 Birth place: Mahabad, Kurdistan, Iran Birth name: Massoud Barzani ...

The move by some fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to burn their weapons in the mountains of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq ...

"Maybe this will be the next fall in the domino effect of this regime," a former Israeli intelligence officer told Newsweek.

“Lawmakers from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) boycotted the session. Only three Kurdish parliamentarians attended it, according to Soran Omar from the ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party says destroying arms ‘a historic, democratic move’ Analysts say the PKK’s military weakness makes disarmament a face-saving move, while allowing Turkish President ...

Several Kurdish leaders—Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and former Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the uncle to Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani, for example—implied to ...

Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the Kurdistan Free Life Party, based in Iranian/Eastern Kurdistan, also known ...

The Barzanis are the most influential Kurdish tribe in Northern Iraq and form the backbone of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) – the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Talabanis are another ...