Masoud Barzani, the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party, fully welcomed Öcalan's call to lay down his arms, writing that "peace is the only right way to resolve ...

Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey that has spilled over into conflict in Syria and northern Iraq, recently announced a ceasefire ...

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 ...

Iraq’s Kurdistan region is producing 286,000 barrels of crude oil per day, Iraqi oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani told state television on Sunday, citing secondary sources.

(Bloomberg) — Iraq and oil companies operating in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan failed to reach an agreement during a meeting on Sunday meant to help restart crude oil exports from the ...