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.

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 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan - Judge Munther Hussein was sworn in on Thursday as the new head of Iraq’s highest judicial authority, the ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Women who gave voice to the Kurdish feminist slogan say Israel cannot bring liberation from 'gender apartheid' or the regime ...

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 ...

Alan Wali’s story is not just one of survival, but of courage, clarity, and conviction. At a time when standing with Israel ...

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