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 ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman described Iraqi Kurdish independence as a fait accompli on Monday but said his country was taking no action to help the Kurds achieve formal statehood. The ...

Instead of gaining independence, the Kurds have suffered historic setbacks. — -- In ongoing standoff following a referendum for an independent state separate from Iraq, Kurds in northwestern Iraq ...

Residents of Iraq's Kurdish region cast their votes today in a controversial independence referendum seen as a way to signal the ethnic minority's desire for self-determination, despite strong ...

Disputes persist over unpaid debts exceeding $1 billion to foreign oil firms, Baghdad's rejection of Kurdish autonomy, and Turkey/Iran's opposition ...

IRBIL, Iraq — Has the time for Kurdish independence finally arrived? No other Mideast community (except Israel) has a closer relationship with the United States than the Iraqi Kurds, who have played a ...

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.

When ISIS swept northern Iraq, Kurdish oil tankers started showing up in Israeli ports, and in 2017 Israel became the only country on this side of heaven to openly back Kurdish independence. That is ...

Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced to AFP that he had reached a "preliminary agreement" with Damascus on the ...

As Iraq fractures into pieces, the long-simmering movement for Kurdish independence is showing its strength. The Kurds, who control an oil-rich swath of northeastern Iraq, have been seizing more ...