The Kurdistan Region of the Republic of Iraq (KRI) is a constitutionally recognized semiautonomous region in northern Iraq with a population of 5.1 million (2012 estimate). Its government (the KRG), ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of international researchers, led by the University of Göttingen, has studied how the f ...

Kurdistan’s division between four nation-states has also led to the emergence of at least four visions of what a free and independent Kurdistan might look like: from ‘Democratic Confederalism’ in ...

In 2017, the ill-timed independence referendum provoked the Government of Iraq ... the Kurdish parties’ access to cash, it also created a political crisis among Kurds. Heated intra-Kurdish ...

Residents of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region went to the polls in long-awaited parliamentary elections Sunday ...

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq will hold long-overdue parliamentary elections on June 10, according to a decree issued by regional presidency on Sunday. “The decree is effective immediately ...