Reuters spoke to eight sources in Baghdad, Washington and Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, who said that mounting pressure from the new U.S. administration was a key driver behind Monday's ...

The attack was part of the larger genocidal Anfal campaign that Iraq carried out against Kurds.This is the 37th anniversary of the attack, which killed about 5,000 people. The larger Anfal campaign ...

On 3 August, Barzani and his men were preparing to go to Sinjar, which had already been taken by IS, but on 6 August, Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, came under threat when IS took ...

Protesters tried to march to Erbil, the regional capital of Kurdistan, but were prevented security forces at the checkpoint ...

In 1946 Archibald Roosevelt, a United States intelligence officer, was one of the few Westerners to reach Mahabad, capital of the newly formed Kurdish republic. (photo: Library of Congress ...

City St George's, University of London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Public sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have ...

Always wanted to visit Iraq, but were too afraid to go because of the security issue? Erbil, in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, makes a holiday in ancient Mesopotamia possible.

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon ...