Rudaw - Kurdish party officials on Sunday participated in a memorial to commemorate Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, killed in a US airstrike on Friday. On Friday, US airstrikes killed both Gen. Soleimani, the head of Irans elite Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, known in Arabic as ...

IRNA - President of Iraq's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Masoud Barzani and Iran's envoy to Baghdad Iraj Masjedi held talks on bilateral ties. In the meeting held in the capital city of Iraq's Kurdistan region, Erbil, on Wednesday evening, the two officials also discussed holding a conference on Iran-Iraqi Kurdistan economic opportunities. The ...

Alwaght- Being a complicated and ambiguous challenge, the Kurdish issue has frequently been a trigger for tensions between the Turkish central government and the Kurdish parties and groups. In recent years, Turkeys ruling party, Justice and Development Party (AKP), has changed its approach towards Kurds and region generally, however, due to inconsistency ...

The Takfiri Daesh militant group has reportedly executed 112 of its own members in Iraqs embattled northern province of Nineveh. Spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network on Monday that Daesh terrorists killed their fellow extremists in the city, located ...

[caption id="attachment_133550" align="alignright" width="120"] File photo shows Turkish Kurds holding a portrait of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.[/caption] The imprisoned leader of Turkeys outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has expressed hope to conclude a peace deal with the Turkish government within months. Abdullah Ocalan made the remarks ...