The move by some fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to burn their weapons in the mountains of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq ...

"Maybe this will be the next fall in the domino effect of this regime," a former Israeli intelligence officer told Newsweek.

Federal financial transfer signals political will to implement an agreement that could result in re-starting northern oil ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with ...

Kurdistan Workers’ Party says destroying arms ‘a historic, democratic move’ Analysts say the PKK’s military weakness makes disarmament a face-saving move, while allowing Turkish President ...

The regional government is dominated by two parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, with the KDP overseeing the regional capital, Irbil, and the city of Dohuk.

Statements by the Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union, an umbrella organisation of Kurdish left organisations, and the Kurdistan Free Life Party, based in Iranian/Eastern Kurdistan, also known ...

The Barzanis are the most influential Kurdish tribe in Northern Iraq and form the backbone of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) – the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Talabanis are another ...

For the first time in decades, major Kurdish political factions—including the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Iraq, as well as the Democratic Union ...

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its founder Abdullah Öcalan have played a key role in shaping the resistance of the Kurdish people since the 1970s.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party will probably once more about one and a half times as many seats as the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, while opposition and Islamist parties taking — in total — about the ...