A map of the approximate Kurdish-populated region of Iraq. Awder Shwan / Shutterstock Iraqi Kurdistan is now experiencing a wider economic downturn, as the region's limited private sector is also ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) will start ...

Turkey has been fighting an armed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., a militant group that says it seeks greater rights for the country’s Kurdish minority. The group began ...

In Turkey's Kurdish Heartland, Distrust Erodes Peace ... Jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's call last month for his militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disband following an approach by an ...