A notorious Kurdish gangster has fled Turkey to avoid extradition on drug-trafficking charges, a Swedish prosecutor has told The National. Rawa Majid, 39, known as the Kurdish Fox, had been living in ...

According to IJsselstein, the region’s relative stability and strong ties with the Netherlands have fueled significant ...

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 ...

Turkey and Iran have recalled their ambassadors amid growing diplomatic friction, marking a new phase in regional power struggles since late 2024. This latest dispute follows Iranian criticism of ...

According to the latest survey, any individual in the Kurdistan Region with a monthly income of less than 137,000 Iraqi dinars (about $100) falls below the poverty line. Economic experts suggest ...

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.

The Kurdish uprising began on March 5, 1991, in the town of Ranya, quickly spreading to other cities, including Sulaymaniyah, Erbil, and Duhok. Peshmerga forces and civilians expelled Iraqi troops, ...

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

Initial talks with oil companies ended without agreement on key issues Iraq under U.S. pressure to resume Kurdish oil exports Kurdish oil contracts face legal challenges from Iraqi government ...

“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 ...