For far too long, American policymakers have tiptoed around the Kurdish question, hesitant to fully endorse independence for fear of regional backlash or instability. But the realities on the ground ...

WASHINGTON - An Iraqi Kurdish push for independence from Baghdad appears likely to be a question of 'not if but when,” in a significant challenge to Iraq's stability, the head of the U.S. Defense ...

The Kurdish people are an ethnic minority group in the Middle East without an independent state. Estimates of the population range between 25 million and 45 million worldwide, with most living in the ...

Turkey has reacted with unbridled fury to the independence referendum in Iraqs Kurdistan region, warning of consequences up to military action, but Ankara will be wary of provoking a total rupture ...

Iraqi Kurds held an election today that most of the world did not want to happen. It's a referendum on Kurdish independence from Iraq. Voters are expected to support it strongly. If that happens, the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Russia, the only major power that has not called on Iraq's Kurds to cancel a referendum on independence next week, has swiftly become the top funder of Kurdish oil and gas deals, ...

Talk of restarting KRI exports via Ceyhan is premature—Turkey hasn’t agreed and the Kirkuk–Ceyhan line remains shut since Mar 25, 2023. Any restart hinges on a Turkey–Baghdad deal, not the KRG.