Kurdistan

Iraqi soldiers have seized Kirkuk in an attempt to quash an independence bid following a referendum in the region

With airport and oil fields reclaimed Iraqi forces push deeper into Kurdish-held Kirkuk.

The veteran Kurdish leader's body was flown to his home town from Germany where he died on Tuesday

Iraq's prime minister Haider al-Abadi, in Paris on bi-lateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, has stressed he does not want an armed clash with Kurdish Iraqi authorities and urged Peshmerga forces in disputed areas to work with Iraqi security forces under the control of the central gove

Baghdad imposes reliatory ban on international flights to and from the Kurdistan region of Iraq

Iraqi Kurdistan votes in independence referendum

Turkey's parliament have voted to extend the authorisation to deploy Turkish troops in Iraq and Syria.

World powers are worried independence for Iraq's Kurdish region could stir tensions.

A truck bombing at a military outpost has killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens more in Turkey.

Bomb blasts in two cities in southeast Turkey killed nine people and wounded 38 on Wednesday. Security sources are blaming the Kurdistan Workers Party known as the PKK.

Two police officers were killed in a car bomb explosion in southeast Turkey on Sunday. The blast targeted police headquarters in the city of

A Turkish soldier has been killed and dozens injured in a truck bomb in Diyarbakir province in the southeast of the country. Thirty-nine soldiers and

The war against the group calling itself Islamic State, or ISIL, is also a war against its beliefs.

Protests against Turkey in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region turned violent on Sunday (Feb.7) as demonstrators called for the United Nations to

Turkey’s prime minister Ahmed Davutoglu has cancelled a meeting with the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which had been planned for next

Fighting continued in the Turkish town of Cizre Wednesday, as government forces shelled buildings they say were being used by the outlawed Kurdistan

The Turkish Prime Minister is vowing not to back down in the fight against the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK

Police fired tear gas as clashes broke out in the south eastern Turkish district of Nusaybin. They happened after a group of deputies from the