History Suggests That Addressing Kurdish Demands Is Essential to Peace in the Middle East
The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Iraqi Assembly Clears Long-Running Pay Dispute Over Kurdish Oil
Iraq’s parliament passed a long-awaited plan to boost payments to oil companies in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, a ...
US-backed commander says his Kurdish-led group wants a secular and civil state in post-Assad Syria
The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria says that the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be ...
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Drone attack targets gas field in northern Iraq
On February 2, a drone targeted the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dana Gas, which runs the ...
Three killed in Turkish drone attack on PKK members in northern Iraq
A Turkish drone strike on Thursday killed three members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said, the latest military pressure from Turkey ahead of an ...
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Iraq Parliament Clears Longstanding Pay Dispute over Kurdish Oil
Iraq's parliament passed a plan to boost payments to oil companies in Kurdistan, a step toward resuming exports from the area ...
Turkey hopes Trump will end US cooperation with Syrian Kurdish militia
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end U.S. cooperation with the ...
In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich region is left in limbo
Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.
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Iraqi Parliament Clears Key Hurdle to Kurdistan Oil Export Restart
Iraq's parliament approves a plan to compensate oil companies in Kurdistan, paving the way for a restart of crude oil exports ...
Turkey says it will join with neighbors to fight the Islamic State group in Syria
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Jordan will come together to fight the remnants of the ...
VOA Kurdish: Gas field attack sparks tensions over Iraqi troops in region
The 16th Brigade of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) remains the dominant force in the Bashir area of southern Kirkuk, with additional forces from the 15th Brigade and other smaller groups ...