The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Ankara on Wednesday, the PKK noted ...

The KDP's majority was assured by an alliance with deputies elected via a quota reserved for Turkmen, Armenian and Christian ...

Iraq's ruling party in the oil-rich autonomous region of Kurdistan won the most seats in this month's legislative election, the electoral commission said Wednesday.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is second, followed by the New Generation Movement. Voter turnout is up, 72 per cent against ...

The ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in northern Iraq has secured the most seats in the region's recent legislative election, the ...

The Turkish interior minister points the finger at the PKK group after an attack near Ankara kills five people.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Tens of billions of dollars have been lost since the Kurdistan Region’s oil pipeline exports were halted last year, the oil producing firms said on Saturday ...

Between 25 and 35 million ethnic Kurds inhabit a mountainous region straddling Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia ... the main Kurdish parties avoided taking sides. In 2012, government forces ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iran’s consul general to Erbil on Monday said that the Islamic Republic will help Kurdish parties “whenever necessary” to form the next government, stressing that ...

The Kurdish people are a minority in the wider Middle Eastern region but indigenous to the areas making up parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Armenia and Iran. They do not have a state.

He was born in Armenia to a Yazidi Kurdish family. He is one of nine children in the family and they all have been well educated. After completing his high school in 1975 in Armenia, later that ...

BAGHDAD, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) came first in a parliamentary election in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, winning 39 seats, the election ...