Turkey, Italy, Cyprus and Greece play a key role in providing transshipment services to Israel. As the terminus of the ...

Iraq has begun its first nationwide population census in decades in a step aimed at modernizing data collection and planning ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Roads leading to Kirkuk from Erbil and Sulaimani were unusually congested on Tuesday as natives of the disputed province returned en masse to be recorded as residents of ...

Kurdistan Region (KRI) is a semi-autonomous administrative entity within the Republic of Iraq. It comprises four Kurdish-majority divisions of Arab-majority Iraq: the Erbil Governorate, the ...

The colorful city of Duhok transforms into a crucial platform for high-level dialogue as regional leaders and decision-makers gather at the American University of Kurdistan to discuss urgent security ...

Iraqi Kurds want their independence. Even before the referendum results were announced, we knew a majority of Kurds had voted for it; the only real question was which position would be taken by the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced the pro-Kurdish mayor of Dersim (Tunceli) to over six years in prison on charges of belonging to a “terrorist organization.” ...

Ayub Nuri was born in the wrong place, or so he likes to quip. He comes from Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. The origins of that town’s name come from nomads who, according to one popular interpretation, ...

The census is expected to have profound implications for Iraq's resource distribution, budget allocations and development ...

KAWAGUCHI, Saitama Prefecture--City officials here are struggling to vaccinate Kurdish people because of difficulties in locating them and providing accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccine ...