Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a hardline warning as protests rip across the country — branding ...

Iranian proxy attacks on Kurdish energy infrastructure could put US troops in danger. On the evening of November 26, the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq was ...

In recent months Turkey’s peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an armed Kurdish group that has been locked in a war with the country’s army for four decades, have picked up steam. In a ...

U.S. imports of Kurdish crude are less about oil and more about geopolitics. Iran views Kurdish gas development as a threat, using proxy militias to disrupt projects that could reduce Iraq’s ...

A Japanese freelance journalist who made derogatory online comments about Kurdish residents in Saitama Prefecture formally apologized to them in a settlement approved by the Tokyo District Court.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The United States on Thursday affirmed it is working “aggressively and quickly” with partners in Erbil and Baghdad to deploy defenses that protect the Kurdistan Region’s ...

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The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members. By Alissa J. Rubin ...

The Foreign Office has warned against "all travel" to 19 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia and South America - so it's important to check the advice before you go away.