A ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday saw a handful of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants lay down their weapons, a small but hugely symbolic gesture that marks the beginning of an end to a ...

For far too long, American policymakers have tiptoed around the Kurdish question, hesitant to fully endorse independence for fear of regional backlash or instability. But the realities on the ground ...

Crude oil exports from Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan have reached 205,000 barrels per day (bpd), but the oil flows via a pipeline to the Turkish point of Ceyhan could be under threat ...

There isn’t, and maybe — if United States policy were more controlled — there wouldn’t be in Kurdistan. But, wisely or not, the United States has assigned itself the role of agitator in the parts of ...