Iran and Turkey are opposed to Kurdish independence, fearing that their own restive Kurdish populations may be inspired by the Iraqi Kurds’ example. These two regional superpowers can ...

Voices Kurdish independence is coming – but the Kurds themselves have to secure it. Britain and other great powers will not create a new Kurdish state.

Kurdish independence, or even autonomy, would allow it to open up to world markets (dependant on what Turkey has to say.) This, for a West overly reliant on Russian energy exports, ...

Earlier this month, Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani announced that a long-awaited referendum on independence would be held Sept. 25, 2017.

Kurdistan will, at best, find itself in an unstable region and, at worst, will be surrounded by hostile powers resentful of its independence and disputing both its borders and claim to resources.

Iraqi Kurdistan—distinct from other large Kurdish regions in Syria, Turkey, and Iran—is to a significant degree already independent. Under customary international law, the minimum threshold ...

The Kurdistan Region’s two ruling parties - the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) - ...

The Middle East is undergoing a profound geopolitical transformation. Authoritarian regimes, long sustained by religious ...

Despite controlling Iraqi Kurdistan's oil sector post-2017 independence vote, Russia prefers to work with Baghdad's central government.

AKURDISH independence movement was officially inaugurated at the San Francisco Conference in April 1945, in a letter addressed to the delegates in the name of the Kurdish League. The letter was ...

Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish ...