Now let's get a perspective out of Iraq's North - the Kurdish region. We'll speak with Qubad Talabani, the deputy prime minister of the Kurdish regional government. Welcome to the program, sir. DEPUTY ...
"Everyone likes him,” Abbas al-Bayati, a Shiite lawmaker, told The New York Times. “He is a moderate man and was agreed to by everyone,” adding that the 76-year-old is “a man who refuses divisions, ...
As many Iraqi forces abandon their posts in the far north of the country, the Kurdish Regional Government has moved in to try to fill that vacuum. The flag of the autonomous region now flies over the ...
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Aided by U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes, Kurdish forces Sunday wrested back part of Iraq’s largest dam from Islamic militants who had captured it less than two weeks ago, security ...
WASHINGTON DC—The women fighters of the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and a Kurdish Yezidi parliamentarian were chosen by CNN this week as the most inspiring women of 2014. “The female fighters have ...
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced several pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 42 years in prison over deadly riots in 2014 by Kurds angered by what they perceived to be government inaction ...
Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) plans to open its third international office in Iraqi Kurdistan during the first quarter of 2014, according to Hamad Buamim, DCCI president and CEO.
Eight years after protesters and police clashed in eastern Turkey over the Islamic State siege of Syria’s Kobani, Kurdish politicians are among those sought by authorities on terrorism-related charges ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on ...