ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) on Friday said he is concerned about the state of governance in the Kurdistan Region and confirmed his party will not take ...

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.

Ansar al-Islam, the Islamic group which Washington calls the link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, assassinated a minister of the Kurdish parliament and two other government ...

(Reuters) - Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish militant leader jailed by Turkey who called on Thursday for his Kurdistan Workers ...

Election results from the vote for the regional parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region show the two dominant Kurdish parties have maintained their hold while an opposition ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - All Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, including U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces, must lay down their weapons after the peace call from the jailed leader of the outlawed ...

YPG established control in northern Syria during civil war Turkey views YPG as indistinguishable from PKK YPG seeks decentralization, not independence, in Syria Feb 27 (Reuters) - Abdullah Ocalan ...