The best time to travel to Iraq is during spring, from March to May, or in the fall, from September to November, when temperatures are more pleasant, allowing for comfortable exploration of cities and historical sites.

Iraq’s new prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, told reporters in Baghdad on Saturday that the leadership of the Kurdistan Region, which is semiautonomous, had refused the disarmament demand.

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in ...

Crude was higher, and the potential resumption of oil exports from Iraq’s Kurdistan region could challenge the country’s ability to comply with OPEC+ quotas, Commerzbank said.

Iraq cuts off funds for public employees in Kurdistan The Iraqi Ministry of Finance announced a decision last month to halt funding for salaries of public sector employees in the Kurdistan Region.

Iraq and Kurdistan expect to complete all work to resume oil exports from the semi-autonomous Iraqi region by the end of March, following a two-year hiatus due to a dispute over authority over ...

A rare moment of hope and unity unfolded this April in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. It was the first Kurdistan National Prayer Breakfast where Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and ...

Tehran is putting increased pressure on Baghdad to push alleged anti-Iranian "terrorists" out of Iraq's Kurdistan region, demanding that nearly 120 Iranian Kurds be extradited to Iran for trial ...

The taps have run dry, and the wells are almost empty. In the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, 80-year-old Babir hasn't bathed in weeks and impatiently waits for trucked-in water deliveries."There is nothing worse than not having water," said Babir, who gave only his first name, in his modest house in Arbil's Darto suburb.As in several other densely populated areas of Arbil and ...

Iraqi’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan has cut its oil production by half upon request from Baghdad, as the second-largest producer in OPEC tries to meet its output quota.