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 ...

A chronology of key events: 1918 - After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, British forces occupy the oil-rich Ottoman province of Mosul, bringing extensive Kurdish-populated ...

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.

Peace activists who worked so hard to prevent the war were clear. Our banners read: No Blood for Oil! Before 2003, Iraqi oil was nationalized and closed to Western companies.

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.

Archbishop Warda said that only 150,000 Christians remain in Iraq, out of the 1.2 million who lived there before 2002.

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, ...

FORT CARSON, Colo., Aug. 25, 2011 -- "You're the first Iraqi who hasn't tried to kill me," a Soldier said to me on my first day volunteering with the Army at Fort Carson. I didn't know whether to ...

Likewise, after Barzani and Talabani fought a civil war between 1994 and 1997 over the region’s customs revenues, the Turks inserted “Peace Monitoring Forces” which stayed well beyond their ...

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.