Baghdad’s seizure of oil-rich Kirkuk, aided by Shiite militias close to Tehran, has forced the Kurdish government to freeze its independence-referendum results.

This fell apart during a civil war in 1994-1997 that saw the region partitioned between their supporters. They became reconciled in 2002, and Mr Talabani went on to become president of Iraq.

In those days, Koya was under the no-fly zone carved out by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France after the Gulf War to protect Iraqi Kurds from Saddam Hussein’s warplanes and ...

The last census, conducted in 1997, did not include the Iraqi Kurdistan region, which has been under Kurdish administration since the 1991 Gulf War.

Many refugees fleeing across the English Channel come from Iraqi Kurdistan, not from war-torn Afghanistan or Syria. Nor is the PKK an alien movement. While Abdullah Öcalan founded the PKK in Turkey, ...

In addition, Iran has claimed responsibility for attacking Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraqi Kurdistan. This happened in response to the protests in Iran over the killing of Jina ...

Since the onset of the latest Israel-Hamas war, ... THAAD, and MIM-104 Patriot air defense missile systems. It should place at least one of these systems in Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, Erbil.