Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki promised Saturday to smoke out Kurdish separatist rebels using Iraq as a base to launch attacks into neighboring Turkey. The Iraqi leader spoke at a gathering of ...

The mountains of northern Iraq have for years been a sanctuary for Kurdish militants fighting a decades-long insurgency ...

Iraqi Kurdish villagers avoid talking about their ... We grew wheat, sesame, and rice. We ate everything from our farms.” Over the past years, cut off from their farmland, the locals have ...

Iraqi Kurdish farmers and their lands became collateral ... with only about 150 houses and where villagers rely on sesame, walnuts and rice farming. But as the fighting dragged on, the conflict ...