A drone laden with explosives was shot down near Erbil airport in northern Iraq late on Thursday, the latest in a spate of ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least 1,000 people have been arrested across the Kurdistan Region on drug-related charges since the beginning of the year, security officials said on Sunday, averaging ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Sherwan Sherwani, one of the journalists arrested during the 2020 anti-government protests in Duhok, will spend six additional months behind bars after a judge refused to ...

Its oil wealth and diverse population have made it a focal point of disputes between Iraq's federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The region was under Peshmerga control ...

An appeal court in the Iraqi Kurdistan region has reduced the four-year sentence against Kurdish imprisoned journalist Sherwan Sherwani to two years, while security forces arrested a Kurdish ...

The car ride from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, to the town of Shaqlawa took about 40 minutes – about the same time it takes to find Fakhria Elia’s home in the ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Over four decades ago, Leyla Qasim’s final request was for a set of Kurdish clothes to be delivered to her prison cell, so she could wear the outfit and be the bride of ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Turkey’s largest city Istanbul was on high alert on Tuesday as opposition parties, and workers’ unions flocked to the streets to celebrate Labor Day while police arrested at ...

From noisy cafés and bars, to the quiet of people’s homes, everyone in Erbil – the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq – is trying to make sense of what happened. Many ...

But Kurdistan is alive with bars and hotels. The craic is mighty. I can’t count the number of nights I’ve gone to homes and restaurants and collapsed into a chair after an hour of dancing.

The city of Erbil is not far from the front lines of a war, but for Americans living in this part of northern Iraq, the conflict may feel a world away.

by Sara HUSSEIN ERBIL - The onslaught by Sunni Arab militants in northern Iraq has prompted the country's Kurds to deploy the famed peshmerga security forces in defence of their autonomous region.