The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

A group of environmental activists from the village of Khurmal in Iraqi Kurdistan's Halabja province have started a campaign ...

Pro-Kurdish Turkish lawmakers conveyed a message on Sunday to Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani from Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who is expected ...

The President of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, has urged Damascus's new authorities to protect Syria's Kurds, in a meeting with Syria's Interim Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. The ...

BAGHDAD — A Turkish opposition party delegation arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region Sunday against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Demonstrators march to demand the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan in Qamishli, northeastern Syria ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani shared his insights on a range of key topics, including the United States ...

A delegation from Türkiye's Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) visited Masoud Barzani, a veteran Iraqi Kurdish politician, as part of efforts for the "terror-free Türkiye" initiative. The DEM ...

Iraq's president has sued Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani over unpaid salaries for civil servants in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, bringing into focus a rift in the country's leadership.