Kurdish officials in Kirkuk expressed concern on Friday about ethnic imbalances in recent police recruitment and urged ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

Turkmen and Arab leaders in Kirkuk on Wednesday rejected statements made by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leader Bafel ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western ...

Furthermore, the elites within both Iraqiya and the KDP might calculate that unseating ... like Iran that exercises political control. Similarly, Iraq is a frontline state in the conflict between ...

City St George's ... Regional Government (KRG) and Iraq’s federal government in Baghdad. The conflict centres on disputes primarily over territorial control and oil revenues.

From 1994 in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, a bitter civil war between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of ... in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in north-eastern Syria ...

The KDP has not issued an official response to the defections. The defection adds to tensions between Baghdad and Erbil over governance and security control in disputed territories, highlighting the ...

In a statement issued on the occasion, the KDP emphasised the importance of Kurdish unity and organization, urging all political factions to focus on strategic issues facing the Kurdistan Region. “The ...