Recent history has been cruel to the Kurds. Unlike the Persians, another non-Arab people in the Arabian east, whom have their own great nation with borders and a means of defense, the Kurds are settled throughout Turkey, the Levant and Iraq without...

For years under Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Kurdistan’s two main political-quasi-tribal blocs for a bitter civil war. But since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Kurdistan Patriotic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have...

Although relations seem to be improving between Turkey and the Kurds, relations between Arabs and Kurds in Iraq is soring . Previously Kurdish parties had dominated northern Iraqi not due to their numbers, but, simply, due to the Sunni boycott...

Iraqi Kurdistan is enjoying a properties boom due to extensive British investment in housing in the area. Northern Iraq has always been more stable that the rest of the country and has benefited from that in the past and even more so now....

Turkish threats of invading northern Iraq have united the region’s predominantly Kurdish population. Kurdish political complexities have fallen into oblivion amidst tough military rhetoric from Ankara. The elite Kurdish Peshmerga forces have...

Bush’s excursion in Iraq has been a complete mess from the very start and this has been conceded in virtually every quarter (except of course, the Bush administration.) What started with lofty ideals of ‘War on terror’ has...

A gruesome incident, which led to the death of a teen in north of Iraq created a widespread condemnation. It was able to gather attention of international media because of the footage. Now authorities in the region have detained four people...

Clouds of sectarian violence could be anticipated between Muslims and Yazidis in Kurdistan Region. The killing of young girl Du’a Khalil Aswad has ignited sparks in the Province. It’s bad enough that this woman’s male family...

The over-burdened American soldiers in Iraq are about to be given one more assignment. This time, it is the job of containing the Kurdish fighters from Turkey in northern Iraq. Turkey says that about 4,000 Kurdistan Workers’ Party...