Iraqi Kurdish seamstress Sanaa will, like many other voters, boycott an election later this month, a signal of growing ...

In the mountains of northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Region is preparing for an election that could either secure its democratic ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, on Thursday, reassured allies and partners that there is a strong will to unify ...

KDP President Barzani condemned rival parties for using divisive and antagonistic language, while stressing that the KDP ...

Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil is teeming with supporters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) as the largest rally in ...

Since then, Israel has maintained a special relationship with the Iraqi Kurds. In 2017, the Kurdistan Regional Government ...

The quota system has provided an incentive for political parties, especially the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), to reach out to active members of ...

The region was supposed to hold the election by the end of 2022, but the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) were not able to reach an agreement about ...

Massoud Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party whose forces now control northern Kurdish region of Iraq, with help from Iraqi army, says he wants area to be castle of peace and democracy ...

The raids follow an attempted rally in Diyarbakır demanding the lifting of the confinement of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.

His son is still in charge of the dominant Kurdistan Democratic Party. Barzani helped set up a Kurdish Republic in Iran in 1946 but it was crushed - this time by Iranian soldiers -forcing the KDP ...

At the same time, the PKK’s slow and steady encroachment into civilian areas, infringing upon the territorial authority of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), has triggered a legitimacy ...