AN intersection in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk paints a vivid picture of the Kurds' rapid turn of fortune. The towering statue of a fighter who used to brandish a Kurdish sunburst flag now holds ...

The Kurdish flag adopted by Barzani is that of the short-lived, separatist Mahabad Republic, which, with Soviet backing, declared its independence from Iran in 1946. Maps printed on Iraqi Kurdish ...

As Anne Garrels reported on Monday, Kurdistan, in the northern part of Iraq, is very different from the rest of the country. It is noisy with construction, not bombs. The ruler of the Kurdish north, ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish officials will not remove Kurdish flags from state buildings along the semi-autonomous border in a defiant move that will fuel tensions with the central government, ...

The Kurdistan flag is seen waving over a statue of Kurdish leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani, founder of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Dec. 17, 2021 (Sipa photo by Ismael Adnan via AP Images). Last month ...

ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was -- until recently -- an obscure Syrian border town, now the focus ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the ...