Minority groups, like Kurds, Balochs, and Ahwazis, could overthrow the ayatollahs’ dictatorship without direct American ...

Kurdish fighters have consistently battled America’s worst enemies — jihadist groups like ISIS, al Qaeda and others— sparing American blood and treasure. Unlike many other partners in the ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The country's restored unity, fractured by autonomy demands, will depend on the success of the process, with a ...

Both announcements mark a big shift in Kurdish strategy. Kurds hope that relinquishing their arms will help them negotiate ...

I was opportunistically kidnapped by supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). In light of the PKK declaring last ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the country’s ...

The Iranian regime faces pressure as Israel strikes military targets, with Iranian Americans advocating for the overthrow of ...

Talks between the delegation representing northeast Syria (Rojava) and the interim government in Damascus are progressing, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The autonomy that the Kurds enjoy in Iraq is the “linchpin ... HKN Energy and WesternZagros, granted the American firms the rights to develop two oil and gas fields ...

To Persis Karim, professor and outgoing director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies (which is being closed at San ...

Iraq was already facing a crisis prior to the Israeli airstrikes on Iran and Iran’s retaliation. In May, the autonomous ...

Our heritage sites continue to be vandalized and destroyed, even used for military exercises by the Kurdish Regional ...