Back in July 2016, just before the formal launch of the FBI’s investigation of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election, a bureau informant met in...
Iraqi judicial authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Kurdish politician at the center of last year's failed independence bid, a source from within...
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a brief meeting with the prime minister of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, in Moscow...
The prime minister of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region will hold high-level talks in Moscow Wednesday with Russian officials, a Kurdistan regional...
Elections will be held in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq on Sept. 30, Kurdish broadcaster Rudaw said Tuesday, citing regional Prime...
In the multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk it is hard to find posters of Kurdish candidates for Iraq’s upcoming polls, but the campaigns of other hopefuls are in full...
As if the loss of their oil-rich territory last year wasn’t painful enough, Iraq’s divided Kurds are bracing for a blow on the political front in the...
Last October, at the height of a political crisis in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, a letter arrived at the Iraqi oil ministry in Baghdad from Igor Sechin, head of...
Iran will resume direct flights from Tehran to Irbil in coming weeks, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, almost six months after the Baghdad government...
In his native village of Awja, the mausoleum of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein has been reduced to broken concrete and tangled barbed wire, showing...
A Baghdad court Monday sentenced six Turkish women to death and a seventh to life in prison for membership of Daesh (ISIS), a judicial source said.
Middle East Airlines will resume flights to Iraq’s Kurdish region starting April 3, an airport source told The Daily Star Tuesday.
Iraqi authorities said Tuesday they had ended a nearly six-month air blockade imposed on Iraqi Kurdistan in response to its holding of an independence...
As militants swept across Iraq three years ago, he rescued a treasure trove of ancient religious manuscripts from near-certain destruction.
As militants swept across Iraq three years ago, he rescued a treasure trove of ancient religious manuscripts from near-certain destruction. Father Najeeb...
Russian state oil company Rosneft has emerged with an important role in talks between Iraq's government and Iraqi Kurdistan on resuming full oil exports from...
Russian state oil company Rosneft has emerged with an important role in talks between Iraq’s government and Iraqi Kurdistan on resuming full oil exports from...
Iraq has extended by three months a ban on international flights to the autonomous Kurdish region, a senior official at Irbil airport in the capital of Iraqi...
An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Daesh (ISIS), a judiciary spokesman said Sunday.