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 ...

Iraqi Kurdish leaders plan to hold a controversial independence referendum on Monday. Kurds are expected to overwhelmingly vote in favor of separating from Iraq. The United States and other allies ...

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.

This is not the time for Kurdish independence. July 18, 2017. A convoy of peshmerga troops drives toward the frontline in Khazer, east of Mosul, Iraq, last year. (Bram Janssen/Associated Press) ...

In the face of enormous opposition, on Monday Iraqi Kurdistan went ahead with a referendum on independence. Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States were among the major international powers ...

Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani delivers a speech during a rally to urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of ...

Over 90 percent of Iraq’s Kurdish population have now voted for independence from Iraq. While the referendum is not binding, it reflects the will of a minority group that has a long history of ...

Kurds in Iraq voted overwhelmingly last week in favor of seeking full independence from the central government in Baghdad — setting off a firestorm of international retaliation, including strong ...