The Sunni Progress Party, headed by former Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, ranked third with more than 900,000 votes, while the State of Law Coalition, led by former Prime Minister Nouri ...

This Iranian influence is not limited to Baghdad but extends into northern Iraq through Kurdish groups who originally came from Iran, particularly from the city of Mahabad under the leadership of ...

Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Leaders of Kurdish opposition parties on Tuesday expressed cautious optimism about the outcomes of ...

The decision by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down its arms and apparently disband has reverberated across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. For decades, the Turkish army has operated ...

Members of the Iraqi security forces and displaced people are casting their ballots in early voting in the country's ...

Iraqi authorities safely repatriated 25 Kurdish migrants to Iraqi Kurdistan after becoming trapped in Libya while attempting ...

With no clear majority, formation of next government will require intensive deal-making among strongest blocs.

A judge in Iraqi Kurdistan withdrew the death sentence of Kurdish Jew Binyamin Hassin after a 'sulha' agreement between ...

Iraq is embarking on a likely months-long process of government formation after its national election. Sunni and Kurdish ...

Iraq’s recent election saw 329 seats contested along sectarian lines. The outcome will impact the US-Iraq security arrangement and address the growing power of Iran-backed militias.