Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Friday for the immediate release of investigative journalists Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwani, alleging that their detention by authorities in Iraqi ...

Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwan, two reporters in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, have been thrown behind bars ...

Hunting trafficking’s Kurdish big boss The mastermind of an international people smuggling network has gone into hiding after ...

A financial crisis has led to a rise in the poverty rate in the Kurdistan Region in recent years. According to the latest ...

ERBIL — The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has officially expanded the Runaki national electricity project to Sulaymaniyah, marking a key milestone in the effort to provide 24-hour electricity ...

ERBIL — On March 7, 1991, the city of Sulaymaniyah became a key battleground in the Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime, marking a historic turning point in Kurdish resistance.

If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent state in Syria amid the chaos gripping the region, it could accelerate secessionist movements in other Kurdish areas of the Middle East.

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Sources told Reuters that negotiations held on Thursday to restart Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil flows through the Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline have failed for the second time in ...

Winthrop Rodgers is a journalist and analyst based in Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. He focuses on politics, human rights, and political economy.

“It seems they both reached to this conviction now.” Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, is the city closest to the PKK’s headquarters in the Qandil mountains and many ...

Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, is the city closest to the PKK’s headquarters in the Qandil mountains and many locals support the group.

where Turkey also maintains military bases and often carries out ground and air operations against Kurdish militants. In the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, residents sounded cautious after ...